Hard Mesh for Maya it`s OUT
polycounter
ITS OUT lol, and i dont use maya 
please make it for max to 
http://www.hard-mesh.com/
https://youtu.be/R0Ytc-TeOGM
please make it for max to http://www.hard-mesh.com/
https://youtu.be/R0Ytc-TeOGM
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this is excellent news.
Gonna give it a try as soon as possible.
Yes, modo seems a better option in this case.
Make it accessible with a freelancer or cheaper, more non-corporate artist friendly, and I could see this getting 10x the sales. I am sure it was a lot of work to get the plugin ready for the public, but we as artists already have so many tools (free ones to boot) that we are comfortable with.
get them to buy a 400$ plugin.
well hope they go back to the drawing board with their sales tactics
because I'm pretty sure they would be bathing in money if it was around 100$
I agree.
It looks really nice, but not at the price, and it looks like a lot of undo+test. Probably too heavy to keep in a history node that you can keep tweaking, unless there's a video that demonstrates this? It's hard to say since there's no single feature rundown video.
It also looks like it really kills any idea of going back to make big changes on a complex model. Like changing the size of a cylinder cut-in that sits before and after other boolean edits* + possible post tweaks after you're mostly done and have a change request.
*Unless you can actually do this, or at least reapply each using the same settings as they had before. Again, lack of good demonstration here.
But it does go entirely in Maya, and looks cleaner than the Maya+ZBrush boolean/dynamesh workflow.
topology needs a lots of clean up. if you want to animate later...:poly124:
Looks really nice.
I posted this idea on 3ds max forums, please vote it here -> https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-ideas/hard-mesh-for-3ds-max-real-time-boolean-operations-with-chamfers/idi-p/6914928
Or is there someone who could make something like this?
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/laWOo
Yeah echoing the general price point sentiment but considering ADSK's aggressive "Marketing" policy in terms of 'optimising' their product line profit margin of late, I mean quite honestly at the end of the day couldn't have come as any great surprise.
I also remember reading the initial beta testing results blogged by the dev (...independent I think?!) from memory around the 4th quarter 2014 or there a bout's. In my opinion looked fairly fleshed out even then! so I guess ADSK waited until most of the primary stability issues were ironed out before "hopefully?" purchasing the software accordingly at an commensurate sum. On the outside (non-Autodesk user) a nice addition too your toolbox however again carries a sting in it's tail that'll typically be felt by the indie/hobbyist crowd
It should be possible to implement this in 3ds max (using a lot of the already existing features). The code should:
1. Use the Existing Booleans features of 3dsmax (for example the new Bool 3)
2. Cut a strip where the meshes intersect of a variable width in both meshes.
3. Create a 'chamfer' strip between the parts of the geometry
(this strip should have an adjustable 'loop count/tension/chamfer hardness. (And average of topology of both sides)
4. Connect the gaps on both sides of the new strip topology with topology that connects the meshes with the strip.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCysh63BciDmy2vc3rA0EXsQ/videos
(They basically explain how it works in the videos)
http://www.hard-mesh.com/http://www.hard-mesh.com/
Every major package is getting this functionality: Maya (HardMesh), Modo (Meshfusion), Lightwave
VOTE HERE PLEASE - 3ds Max Ideas Forum:
Soft blending between boolean meshes like Modo Meshfusion
"Thank you so much for the interest in Hard Mesh! You are not the first one that wants a 3d max version, along with other softwares. At the moment we have our core that is cross platform, and software indipendent so we could really make a version for 3d max. Even if everythig is made to be portable the effort for creating a version for another software is not so little, so it will take some time. After the release of the mac and linux versions we will look more seriously in the porting to 3d max that it will be for sure the first software to look at for a porting."
Anyway, the part I wanted to mention is that as it is now, the chamfer strip doesn't care too much about your topology.I really ought to have taken pictures, my demo time is up. It has some adjustment sliders, but I found the geo rarely lined up, it's more like it's creating points along a curve on either side of the strip. Corners in particular got butchered. This is where going high poly basically saves it by simply having more geo to cover the oddities it makes. I found that it started lagging too much to work comfortably with a high mesh with many live booleans going, maybe if I had spent more time I could have worked it smarter- hard to say. Now that I think back on it, I think it cleans stray edges automagically, I don't remember having to scout for issues while I bashed things around (it just works??).
Cool plugin and workflow and a bit unstable, but I think I'd still rather go a CAD route for any super serious omg such detail sort of hard surface work.
So Hardmesh performs worse than Modo Meshfusion since it does quite a nice job of connecting the geometry.
If you just need boolean, Crease+ is a good alternative. It's only $8.
I thought 3dsmax also supported the Houdini engine. Can't that be used in 3ds max as well?