Looking for a lost 3DS Max plugin/script/modeling suite

pior

Hey all!

I just spent the last two hours trying to find a 3DS Max modeling package that I tried a year or two ago and want to play with again. Obviously I forgot the name of it, but if I remember correctly :

- It certainly wasn't Polyboost, CSpolytools, Meshtools, RappaTools, or anything by Miauu or Marius.

- One of the key features is that it allowed for "painting the edge flow" straight within the model. Not like retopology (Max-retopo or Wrap-it style). In a way it was a bit similar to Marius' Poly Flow script, but closer to what an "advanced cut tool" could be.

- The toolset was even modifying the display behavior of 3DSMax, using new colors (bright orange, green...) for preview, kind of like Nex does in Maya.

- I believe it was brushed-based.

- Last, I think that the demo video featured a cube being poly edited in all kind of interesting ways. The pitch was about the tools being close to sculptor tools rather than usual polygon editing tools.

I admit that this is very cryptic ... but I am pretty sure that at least a few people here are using it regularly

Thanks if you can help!

P

pior

By the way - the reason why I am looking for it is because I want to find a way to freely hand-draw edges on the surface of a model - like one would do with a pencil on a physical object, without having to worry about the underlying messy topology. Basically the cut tool is okay at that but could be better. Anything potentially speeding up this workflow would be welcome

cptSwing

IC.Shape has brush-based tools, but i'm pretty sure it's not what you're looking for..

And don't the Graphite Tools allow you to sketch edge flow? Thought there was such a tool for retopologizing..

Bryan Cavett

Was it this one? http://www.orionflame.com/

Edit: Just realized this toolset doesnt have the cut tool you mentioned. But still worth a look for its other tools

pior

Cool, thanks for the suggestions Ill try these two out and who knows, they might have useful stuff too

I've been trying to find fast ways to hack shapes together lately (disregarding clean topology) - it's an interesting facet of 3D to explore...

rs3d

Maybe it was Wrapit? Would be interesting to know what you had in mind... http://matt-clark.co.uk/wrapit/

SyncViewS

Hi Pior,
are you referring to this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_4KJ2EV6QI

- Enrico

Mark Dygert

So you're looking for something similar to the cut tool but instead of point,click,point,click you just want to draw and it cuts, without all of the clicking? If so, interesting idea but I don't think I've seen anything like that before, but it sounds interesting if you find it, post it, I want to check it out!

Or did you mean that you would draw on the surface and it would redefine the topology using your line as a guide? I remember seeing something like that but can't recall what it was...

SyncViewS

Hi Mark,
The Draw tool of IC.Shape was working like the first case you're describing. I retired IllusionCatalyst because it isn't working in most recent version of 3ds Max. If there is interest in this particular tool, I might try to make it standalone.

EDIT: I dug up a demo video of the Draw tool from IC.Shape 2.0

cptSwing

haha.. that video is awesome. "thank you, thank you, thank you. cheers. brilliant. cheers"

pior

Ooooh SyncViews, that might very well be it!!
Trying out all these tools is going to make for a great nerdy-artsy weekend

Also, I'm using Max 2009 exclusively so if it works on that version of Max I'd love to give the old IllusionCatalyst a try!