you can try corona scatter. I found it very handy for simple tasks. It comes with corona render engine. It has straight forward workflow and quite simple to use this plug-in. Also you can give it a try with array mod (depends what you want), but array is array and scatter is something else. cheers! -M.
Scatter compound object is one of the older tools, so it's had less love than newer approaches. Thankfully like everything else in Max there are multiple ways to scatter things. Object Paint is pretty nice https://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-2C745521-EAD4-4A9E-A2CF-7A4B6DDC486D Array modifier is the…
For uncertain reason 3d max never ever had a simple and convenient scatter tools . It had always been 3d party plugins. Object paint is destructive ans slow. Array modifier is not even close to geometry nodes in Blender. Last thing I used was particle flow but it's sort of like Creation graph , nobody use it because of non…