SS censoring the truth

It's time to edit this post or maybe it's better to delete it, right?

It appears that the misunderstanding happened, not censorship, as I thought at the beginning.

Rotation dilemma

There is 3 different methods:

• Car wheels that roll
• Rolling Along A Path
• Rolling Ball

In the 1st (is the popular) tutor not cover direction and path distance and if the "weels" change direction then rotation axis is not correct. After all, as I heard, still teach this method in CG scools (!). 2nd tutor sound good, but not clearly what kind of vatiables in use - vector or scalar. And the 3rd use script control instead of expresion based and why it is most correct method - find out in here.

MAXScript Online Reference

Reverse Time v.0.2

I am already posted this script (here) some time ago but with boner. Before the script does not work with a single selection, only with 2 or more selected objects. Now the bugg fixed. Here the new version of my old script:

Download: [Link 1], [Link 2]

ScriptSpot review

VFX tutorials

Mihai Panait from Community.ro share free tutorials for visual effects. He plans to enrich your site with tutorials for a wide range of programs and plugins. Currently there are 3 categories tutorials: Fume Fx, Thinking Particles and Final Render.

Framanip Pro free

Framanip Pro is a 64-bit/32-bit animation and image viewer that individual frame sequences in real time with many options. It is designed to be very fast and easy to use, ideal for checking all the frames of a just rendered 3D animation. It is able to read BMP, TGA, TIF, PNG, JPEG and JPEG2000 frame sequences. Framanip Pro has now been made available for free.
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Atmospherics clouds

This old but useful (and short :) ) tutorial by Ronnie Olsthoom cover usage of Combustion (renamed to Fire Effect), mostly used for explosion effects, and how to make a cloud with it.

Hierarchy chain

Phizikl from ScriptSpot ask for help (forum topic), for how to make linked (parent-child) hierarchy chain, like train and carriages. Well, here's my code hint:

for i in 1 to (selection.count - 1) do append $[i].children $[i + 1]

Here's final version (with macros for UI button). :)