Maxscripts/Melscripts/etc. you can't do without

Eric Chadwick

Thinking about adding a wiki page listing the best scripts that Polycounters know and love, inspired by this thread. If you have a favorite or two, please share.

Please post a link, not just the name. Author would be nice too.

I'll start with a few...

Hendrik-Jan 'renderhjs' Schoenmaker's TexTools maxscript
Martin Breidt's incrementSave maxscript
James 'jhaywood' Haywood's HaywoodTools maxscripts
Enrico 'SyncViews' Gullotti's IllusionCatalyst maxscripts
Yunus 'Light' Balcioglu's Orionflame maxscripts
Christoph 'CrazyButcher' Kubisch's Edge Straighten maxscript
guruware Ivy Generator max plugin
Grant Adam's PSDPathUnwrapper maxscript (requires RPMdlx.dlx)
Grant Adam's Transmographier max plugin

David Baker's Maxplugins.de max plugin collection
Christopher Grant's ScriptSpot.com maxscript collection
Borislav 'bobo' Petrov's scripts maxscript collection
Blur Studios' Blurscripts maxscript collection
Neil Blevins' SoulburnScripts maxscript collection
Paul Hormis' scripts maxscript collection
Paul Neale's scripts maxscript collection
Jim Jagger's scripts maxscript collection

Show me what you got!

MattLichy

+1 for Textools, love them



+10 for boobs.. although it distracted me from your post

renderhjs

Eric Chadwick: how about some tool section as well (like standalone out of 3d apps tools)? I know some members here like FunkyBunnies or some of my stuff that could fit in there. And I'd love to see some greater overview of free or powerful tools crafted by this or similar communities. A few that come to mind

• xNormal
• nJob
• TexRipper
• Funkybar
• marmorset toolbag
• GlueIt

as for the scripts, others I like:

• Mohab Gamal free retopo snapping script "max retopo" for max:
  http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/max-retopo
  my favorite maxscript although encrypted I'd really like to simplify and streamline the UI
• MoP's aka paul greveson's multi OBJ Tool
  http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=62330
  Did I mention I am working on my own one designed for Unity? might be released 2011.
• Denys Almaral's randomizer script "pX LocoRandomizer" for max:
  http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/px-locorandomizer
  writing a script like that is easy but any randomize script is essential to me to build organic environments.
• teddy bergsman's nDo scripts for Photoshop
  http://www.cgted.com/

Eric Chadwick

Thanks for the great links!!

A bunch of tools listed here, but more are welcome!
http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryTools

Bigjohn

One of these geniuses should write a plugin that gives max a decent UI

Racer445

I'm pretty sure their name was Autodesk.

Smooth Manager by Vikram Shingrani
3DS Clean and most other scripts in the thread by Per Abrahamsen and friends
SoulburnScripts by Neil Blevins
vTools for Photoshop by James Taylor
Texporter by Cuneyt Ozdas

Eric Chadwick

Texporter still? It was awesome back in the day, but I thought TexTools had it beat by now. Something missing from TexTools?

Racer445

It's just got some additional UV template options that TexTools does not have. I find the Colorize by Face Normals option in particular very handy when working with other people's models, as well as the ability to easily grab UV sections from polygon selections.

Bigjohn

The link for IllusionCatalyst doesn't work btw.

Nysuatro

Outliner 2 by Pjanssen

Incredible tool. Really awesome when rigging