SciFi Pattern Generator

Mark Dygert

SciFi Pattern Generator Script v.1.1 for 3ds max 2008+

"Greeble-like" custom pattern generation! Make your geometry more interesting with a single click!

Wouldn't it be cool if you could solve all your problems with one single click ? Pattern generator will help you with that!
This 3ds max script lets you generate the most astonishing structures with one single click. It is very reliable, stable and extremely easy to use!
Instant Results! Simply select some meshes and pick a target object and that's it! You can basically texture your meshes with real geometry and even 
use UV Mapping to control the process!"

http://www.code-artists.de/pattern.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okln9IpdUCU

http://www.code-artists.de/pattern.html

 

EmAr

One step closer to the "Make Art" button :P

Makkon

Holy piss....

Tw1tch

EmAr said it perfectly.

ghaztehschmexeh

Really? You say that when ddo exists? :P

Muzzoid

Instant Micheal bay!

Joshua Stubbles

lol @ Muzz. Pretty much Neat script though for sure.

Alphavader

Nice - but where is the "make uvs and send it to ddo and put it in enginex and post it online button?"

Vertrucio

I see scripts like this being more and more useful as starting points for extremely high poly projects. Much faster to write a script to handle generation of these forms them tweak than to try to hand sculpt everything. It's really no different from making your own custom brushes for photoshop/zbrush, or using alphas and such.

The art will still be in there, and that's in modifying these scripts and using them to create beautiful things. I mean, we all can already spot the crappy photoshop filters or canned alphas/brushes. But, people can still use those to make really well designed things.

Mark Dygert

EmAr on May 23, 2013 at 4:03 pm
One step closer to the "Make Art" button.
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You need to generate the pieces it will instance, so in that regard the look and creative control is still on the artist. This just saves you the time of positioning, rotating, scaling and wrangling all those pieces into the final shape.

I wonder how many "ppfft make art button" people would actually give up some of the advanced tools that were created just before they started learning and now totally take for granted?

"I would never use this script, I would much rather use the array tool (which didn't exist at some point) and take 10x longer and have less control, I'm ould-skool! I'm fur realz yo. Notepad 4 life!!1"

If you were really old school you would take advantage of everything that saves you time and gives you more freedom and more control over what you create. Those guys know how much it sucks to be tied down by the old methods and would much rather spend their time on creative tasks.

Also... you're probably staring your competition in the face and he just finished his art test (that matches the look they wanted), in a day, while you're a week overdue. Who's laughing now? Guy with a paycheck that's who. =P

Alphavader

@ Mark . maybe youre right

EmAr

Mark, sorry if my post came out like an opposing view to this kind of tools. I thought the ":P" would make it clear I was joking.

I'm actually very happy about all this stuff. The workflow presented in Kojima Productions' GDC 2013 panel, tools like dDo, knald, all of them...

GhostDetector

Would the script be able to worth with other 3d programs like Maya or Blender?

basiltaleb

@Mark, EmAr's comment was obviously a compliment, and I totally agree. Chill man.

Dubzski

Wowa this is awesome, who cares how art is created as long as its art... you still need to manipulate the tools to create something worthwhile. Scripts like this are amazing at creating pre-viz so you can quickly map out an idea/ show of your idea to a potential client etc.

ikblue

You could easily do that with particle flow but it seems to work fine and the examples give a lot of ideas

tinle

It's great! But I don't think it can be used in a specific project.

kylehorne3d

I am going to have a lot of fun with this.

RezNik

Woah! Love this script!