RappaTools3 Script for 3ds Max has been Released !
RappaTools3 will make your life easier by helping you get things done easy and fast in your everyday tasks that go in 3ds Max.
Some of the Benefits you will get:
* NEW: Now with ChamferOp produce great topoplogy without pinching.
* Never struggle again with the ribbon.
* Have everything in one place for quick access.
* You will produce better results in less time.
* Many tasks will be replaced with one click of a button.
* Intuitive hotbox access for a faster workflow.
* Free Updates and Support.
* Never struggle to manually update it, it does it automatically for you.
New RappaTools3 Build 1358: (21/08/2011)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZJzS0kOEh8[/ame]
RappaTools3 is a commercial script.
(Works with 3ds Max 9 Sp1 + [x86 and x64])
To find out more go to: http://remusjuncu.com/rappatools/
To check out the features list see: http://remusjuncu.com/rappatools/#features
Some of the Benefits you will get:
* NEW: Now with ChamferOp produce great topoplogy without pinching.
* Never struggle again with the ribbon.
* Have everything in one place for quick access.
* You will produce better results in less time.
* Many tasks will be replaced with one click of a button.
* Intuitive hotbox access for a faster workflow.
* Free Updates and Support.
* Never struggle to manually update it, it does it automatically for you.
New RappaTools3 Build 1358: (21/08/2011)
- ChamferOp with "Uniform Mitering", QuadChamfer and UnChamfer.
- More MacroScripts.
- RightClick menu to +Save and Adjacent.
- Isolation Mode.
- Improved GeoPolygon the outline feature.
- QuadMenu.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZJzS0kOEh8[/ame]RappaTools3 is a commercial script.
(Works with 3ds Max 9 Sp1 + [x86 and x64])
To find out more go to: http://remusjuncu.com/rappatools/
To check out the features list see: http://remusjuncu.com/rappatools/#features
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or watch one of the videos on youtube [ame]
will do a tiny update on v2 soon
lucky max is so reasonably priced :poly124:
rabby: is this a MSE or a MS?
MSE makes baby jesus cry
I living on a poor country . This's VietNam . The rice farmers always buy rice for rich countrys with small money . They use moneys for their sons. so...it's will help their sons can go to the school.
Only the interfaces are .ms
caubebutchi: mse = maxscript encrypted, it means you can't look into the code or modify the source, which is what most people do that go commercial with their scripts otherwise they couldn't do buisness as people might just rip their stuff.
well version2 might become open source...
No ones knocking you for protecting your work, especially as its now commercial. Its just some folks prefer to be able to get down and dirty with code, encrypting it prevents that. Tools are much more valuable to power users when they can adapt them.
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I've never seen a point in encrypting free scripts. Your putting a load of work into something and then killing its development once your bored of it.
There are a number of scripts I would like to extend and improve but I cant because the author doesnt want people to see their 'secrets'
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and learn from them.
http://garydave.com/2011/05/combine-attach-selected/
but no matter which way I went about it, it would always lag when I started trying to attach hundreds of objects together. I'm no master of Maxcript which doesn't help but the way I went about it was to just only attach "x" amount of the entire selection. I think I set it to 50 but it might be 100. I mean it works well for most scenarios but I'd like to know if it can be improved, just for curiosity's sake.
Ahah, I like it when peeps just point out pirates...
Note: Slow PC... AMD Athlon x64 x2 4000+ | 3GB RAM DDR2 | GTX 9800GTX+ 512MB
people get the free script play with it and keep the result
tomorrow or something like that i'll move back home from college... after that i'll try to find some time for v2...
so let me guess rappatools3 is too expensive !?
I'm selling rappatools3 so i can get an pc upgrade... also because college is expensive...
You should put up a link for V2 and rename to ' RappaTools Lite' and make a quick list of what is inside V2 and what is in V3...V2 could very well be your demo at this point, and it will help somewhat.
as for version2 will try to get that done too...
Just something to consider, I could be wrong though... you could be making hundreds a day and therefore have every right to tell me to shove it!
Enough banter though... I'll watch your 14 minute clip and then decide. I like what you've done, I really do. If I wasn't so lame at MaxScript I'd of tried the same myself. (in fact, sorry to pimp myself again, but I did write this http://garydave.com/2011/03/daily-grind-toolset-v-10/ purely because I'm obsessed with trying to speed up the pipeline)
if (tomorrow == no sell) then ( lower price
i saw your script... pretty cool, but from a quick look at the .mcr i get your point
Also probably in the near future will post small tutorials/tips on my blog related to max and maxscript what I've learned over the years... tips and tricks...
Also i'm not planing to do maxscript for ever... I have a few more ideas that i have to finish first and then if that's all i'll sort of stop working so much in maxscript...
Select Every Other Loop... you mean dotLoop
http://remusjuncu.com/rappatools/#selection-dotloop
Here's how RappaTools looked in 2008
i started learning maxscript by looking at other scripts and playing with them
That being said I still think you need to work on your presentation. In it's present state the Rappatools3 page on your website looks way overcrowded and it can make potential buyers think that your pack might be a bit of a clunky tool to use too.
First off, the interface screenshots are really not inviting at all. Modelers just want to look at the animated gifs of all your tools, see if anything is of great interest, purchase the pack, and then add the corresponding few buttons or shortcuts to their existing interface. Since RappaTools is targeted at experienced modelers, such persons already have their personal UI setup. Your interface screenshots suggest that it would add more clutter to their workflow. Now obviously for your own use, it's great - you have all your tools in one place. But for all other modelers out there it is rather pointless.
About modifier keys. It seems like most of your tools have powerful parameters trigged by alt and ctrl. Again, it might be good for you but as a modeler I would be worried to purchase a pack that seems to rely heavily on that. For instance I really like your alt-relax and ctrl-relax, but I don't feel like installing this if Iget the sensation that they would be mapped to modifier keys in a weird way. I just want your alt-relax as regular UI button, and your webpage makes me believe that it is not possible (but I cannot tell for sure).
About the custom UI again - there is something to say about the script pack being released along a fully new kind of interface.
As a Max user I am usually very conservative with that kind of stuff. I am fine with adding dozens of little MCRs to Max as I know that it wont slow it down once they are sourced on startup. But I experienced some odd behaviors before (slowdown and glitches) with scripts coming with a fancy interface, and that's something that I don't like.
I'd rather have Rappatools as a simple script pack of tools, simply available through the regular Customize menu/keyboard/quads window in Max. A solid descriptive helpfile and your page of animated gifs are all I would ever need to pick what I want from it. I personally would never need to touch the custom Rappa interface, because I simply would never need it. Yet, being forced to purchase it along with the tools would be a minus for me.
Hope this helps! I am not trying to hate on your work ; I am actually very interested in many of your tools, just not in their present "uber package" form so to speak. I would strongly suggest you to work on a barebones version of RappaTools3, with just the tools and nothing else. I think it would sell.
Do it just like this, but with your GIFs to explain the tools further :
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_tools/soulburnscripts/soulburnscripts.htm
awesome... yes you can use it where ever you want... at home, at work, on your laptop, on your phone !?... as long as YOU are using it
@pior
first thank you for the review.
agree on the presentation stuff... will work on it...
Well the parameters are so i don't triple the number of buttons...
http://remusjuncu.com/rappatools/#modeling-relax you will see the adv.fn (advanced function) that can be use to access the Click+Alt directly...
using: RappaTools3.Relaxfunc ctrl:false shift:false alt:true
that means you can use it as a regular button... or incorporate it in your script... all the features are like that
you can also change the interface button to that...
As for the UI it's just so you can access the features directly... you don't need the interface to use rappatools3...
So should i remove the interface !? and just make macros for absolutely everything !?
Nay ! You can always map you most used functions to hotkeys without buttons (and like you said using cltr/alt/shift can be emulated in the macros so no problem), and less often used ones in a custom ui (or in rappatool rollout).
Best of both world.
I understand the concern of some for the site presentation but if you're an advanced user you should have figured out it's highly customisable and very easily.
For those allergic to uis, you can always go the full hotkey/quad road...
Just my two cents.
http://remusjuncu.com/rappatools/