Subdivision topology - Artifacts

A video tutorial by Greg Petchkovski in which he explains key modeling concepts to avoid unwanted smoothing artifacts in sub division surfaces.

Bake Transform 1.1

I made a minor update (code polish up) of my Bake Transform. Just to say, there is many baking method that dependent on the aim. This script bake animation transform from an object to another object.

Batch Loader 1.4

A requested update of my Batch Loader script. Now all duplicated objects names auto renamed on import. Enjoy.

Dups Instancer

Dups Instancer is my recent MAXScript online. With Dups Instancer you can instance any duplicate nodes, materials, texture maps, modifiers, controllers. For more details check at ScripSpot.



The YouTube's video is too blurred,
but you can get better video copy from my web site.

Running 3DS Max on other OS

If you like to see Max running on other OS (such as Linux), add your voice to Autodesk's survey.

Create Clouds with PFlow

One of the recent tutorials at CGRats.com named "Create Realistic Clouds in 3DS Max" show how to create clouds using Particle Flow Source. I'm not sure why they call it "realistic"... maybe a lot of tweaking with the opacity map settings could rid as of this sharpen render result?... Also, this approach is a render time consuming.

Visual Effects Tools for Architectural Visualization

Series of video tutorials by Louis Marcoux include:

1. Rigid Bodies
2. Constraints on rigid bodies
3. Deformable bodies
4. Advanced cloth setup and animation
5. Static Particles
6. Dynamic Particles
7. Using Hair modifier for grass

Cartoon shader

A cartoon shader tutorial at TrueCG.