Must-have 3dsm Plugins ?

NightGame

Since I don't use ANY plugins for 3dsm, I was wondering what plugins you guys use to make your lives easier.

Tumerboy

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=34439

NightGame

Yeah but that topic is from like... 2004.

IronHawk

then start at the last page and go backwards.

renderhjs

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max-top

I personally like polyBoost and some personal scripts but all in all I try to keep max as plain as possible as some plugins or scripts are sometimes bad written and crash max or add other annoyance stuff.

the blur scripts
http://www.neilblevins.com/blurscripts/blurscripts.htm
are also well known but its often really personal stuff of them - just go through the list and install only what you really need - anything else will be forgotten by you anyway and then its making things only less sorted.

Mark Dygert

It really depends on what you do as to what scripts you'll be interested in. I can recommend a lot of scripts for animation but that probably won't do most of the people here much good...

NightGame

I've tried Chuggnut's unwrap tools but I can't seem to make them work. I'm using Max 2009 could that be the problem ? I loaded the .mcr but no new categories show up.

Edit: nevermind, got it to work.

renderhjs

have you read the help file - the manual? - if I am not mistaken you need to copy a few files into different directories.

NightGame

There was no manual. There was a .mcr file which I loaded and there was the icons file. I got to load it, there is however a small problem. The menu under the UV window gets stuck after I load the tools. Here's a screen.

http://i39.tinypic.com/29e2gsz.jpg

Mark Dygert

That's because its 6-7 years old? Besides most of the features have been rolled into 3dsmax. The only ones I can think of that have not, are the align, and space evenly. But there are tons of other scripts out there that do that without a bulky cumbersome interface... I loved chugnutts tools but, I'm afraid that ship has sailed?

Eric Chadwick

Most of the best Chuggnut tools are now available from MoP and from FatAssasin.

CrazyButcher's LCSM Unwrap pelting system is also highly recommended, as is Olivier Vandecasteele's MorphMap aligned curve-mapping script, plus Mop's Normalize UV Scale and UV Line Relax (when are you gonna link em on your site Paul?).

MoP

Haha, good point Eric. I have a new site design in the works, with a "Scripts" section for my Max and Maya scripts, but I haven't had a chance to finalise it yet. Maybe that can be a New Year's resolution
It can have little animated GIFs and everything!

Yozora

+1 recommendation to mops tools, its the best thing that happened on my switch from maya to max!

oh and draster's switcher... which you need to pay for, but so worth it if you're used to maya's viewport controls and think max's viewport controls are stupid and illogical.

http://draster.com/component/page,shop.product_details/flypage,software-flypage/product_id,18/option,com_virtuemart/

on a sidenote, animated gifs = win.

distilarouk

Hi I'm a student at Itt tech and am working on my capstone in multimedia is there any pointers in modeling or addons for the Aspiring student