MXS Browser

MXS Browser is a personal script, an utility menu that I use all the time. I organize my most often used scripts into folders in Max/Scripts directory and this simple menu is all I need to find and run or edit them quickly.

Quad Chamfer

Quad Chamfer is a commercial script for 3ds Max 2010/12 by Marius Silaghi that offer better chamfer method than Max built-in one.

3ds Max SDK Annual Survey

3ds Max SDK Annual Survey and Highlights from Last Year's Results posted at Christopher Diggins blog. If you're Max SDK developer don't miss that survey ;-)

Grab Viewport with transparent background

Max's Grab Viewport is just a screen capture tool, so we can't do this directly. However we can post-edit the image (in Photoshop for ex.) and remove the background, but some automation of this process is welcome and also recently requested in CGTalk forum.

The first attempt about was Kostadin Kotev's script (here), follows by Leslie Van den Broeck (here). Leslie just extent the first script with more features (additional renderer passes), nice but the base solution is the same. This can be optimized to run about twice more faster, but the base part (process the bitmap per pixel) will remain too slow.

We (me and Kostadin) discuss an better idea and will work on it soon (I hope), so if you interested stay tuned.

Vue 9.5 xStream and Infinite PLE

The Personal Learning Edition (PLE) of E-on Vue xStream and Infinite updated to version 9.5 (all new features).

Visibility Assistant

A simple script by Pete Addington to facilitate setting visibilty keys on objects.
I'm an admirer of mapped functions in MaxScript and use them then it is possible, so am glad to see Pete has set his focus on them too.

Project Photofly 2

Project Photofly 2.0 is an Autodesk software for creating near accurate 3D models from photographs using the web and cloud computing technologies. The last version of Project Photofly is now available for trial download and will expire on December 31, 2012.

What happened to Reactor in 2012?

This is an interesting (at least to me) discussion about the Reactor death in 3ds Max 2012.

Two thinks are clear (for now) - 1. the Reactor is riped and never will be back in the next Max releases, and 2. No any sensible reason for this decision until there is no equivalent replacement feature. If there was good reason, we will have an official explanation as well.

It's not just about Reactor, other features removed too, and as we know this is not the part of the legacy Autodesk politics, and this new course open many doubts and misgivings.