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A very nice and usable Tree Generator Maxscript. Ryan Smith has released a beta of his new free tree generation script. You can create varieties of low poly trees for your 3ds max projects. You can check out the small video tutorial on how to use this script and what it is capable of doing. It is very simple to use it to generate your Trees.
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http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=93240
Alessandra Cangelosi has finally released his procedural r|Shader Collection for 3ds max. The shaders include Ice, Ocean, Sand, Snow, Ice Land, Snow Land, Magma and plain ground. Majority of it was developed during R&D phases on commercial international projects like movie blockbusters, videogame cinematics, commercials etc. The R-Shaders are compatible with Scanline Render and Mental Ray, plus general support for 3rd party products like V-Ray, FinalRender, Brazil R/S and NodeJoe/Slate.
http://www.alessandrocangelosi.com/html/html/little_cloud_dev_-_rshaders_pr.html
CGAxis is out with yet another Exotic 3D Plants Collection. The exotic plants collection volume 15 contains 20 highly detailed 3d plant models of exotic plants with pretextured and materials together with the collection. The exotic 3d plants collection is available in various file formats listed below
FBX 2011,
3ds max – VRay,
3ds max – Mental Ray,
3ds max – Scanline,
Cinema 4D,
Cinema 4D VRay.
The models are compatible with 3ds max 2008 and higher versions.
Below is the list of plants available in the exotic 3d plants collection
01 – Areca Catechu / Areca Palm
02 – Arenga Saccharifera / Sugar Palm
03 – Phoenix Dactylifera / Date Palm
04 – Cocos Nucifera / Coconut Palm
05 – Jubaea Chilensis / Chilean Wine Palm
06 – Elaeis / The Oil Palms
07 – Scheflera Actinophilla / Umbrella Tree
08 – Strelizia Nicolae / Wild Banana
09 – Yucca Elegans / Yucca
10 – Washingtonia Robusta / Mexican Fan Palm
11 – Phoenix Canariensis / Canary Island Date Palm
12 – Callistemon / Bottlebrush
13 – Dracena Draco / Canary Islands Dragon Tree
14 – Cordyline Indivisa / Mountain Cabbage Tree
15 – Yucca Brevifolia / Joshua Tree
16 – Musa Acuminata/ Wild Banana Tree
17 – Eucalyptus cladocaylx / Sugar Gum
18 – Adansonia / Australian Boab
19 – Ficus carica / Common Fig
20 – Citrus Sinensis / Orange Tree
Read More…
http://www.cgaxis.com/product-info.php?cgaxis-models-volume-15-pid679.html
Maxwell Render for 3ds Max
Version 2.5.5 Release Notes
Changes
• added SSS presets to the material wizard
• material previews are rendered internally, without starting a separate Maxwell Render process, and can use the RS0 engine
• added a plug-in option to refresh material previews automatically when the material changes
• added an option to re-export the geometry for Maxwell Fire at every object change, instead of just the position
• added a reexport button to the Maxwell Fire window
• motion data is exported when the motion vector channel is enabled, even if motion blur is off
• added a production/draft toggle in the global render options
Fixes
• RFRK meshes didn’t render in Maxwell Fire
• the Maxwell Fire window stopped updating if it was cloned
• emitters were broken in Maxwell Fire if Multilight was on in the global render options
• emitter MXI files weren’t loaded when importing a MXM file
• crash when opening render options and a daylight system exists in the scene
• the gizmo for the Maxwell RFRK object was wrong
• crash when adjusting the camera settings
Kicthen Cabinet Creator is a free 3ds Max Maxscript which allows you to creator all sorts of furniture cabinets required to create varieties of Kitchen models. Kitchen Cabinet creator generates various combination of kitchen design in a few mouse clicks..do check it out…
"Displacement Roof Surfaces"
Digital X has released a new roof tiling displacement script for 3ds max. At the moment the script focuses on barrel tile roofs only, however future updates will include other types of tile, metal roofs, and shingles. It works by creating the materials and displacement maps and then applies proper UV coords to your existing roof geometry. After the script has run you can interactively change the tile color, contrast, and tile size as well.
Axyz Designs released its new version of 10 3D CARs ready to use in 3ds max which includes materials for Vray and Mental Ray. Each 3D Car contains 15,000 polys approx and which can be altered using the TurboSmooth Modifier. All the 3D Cars are available in 3DS Max 9 + VRay. 3DS Max 2009 + Mental Ray and Mr Proxies included!
The GTools_MultiLight Script for 3ds max 2009 allows you to interactively change various parameters like intensity, gamma, tint etc of each lights or self emitting material. So you can easily tweak the lighting according to your project and make varieties of options of lights for stunning lighting results and the best part is all this can be animated too..so download the free script. The Multilight Max script supports various Rendering Engines for 3ds max such as Mental Ray, Final Render and Brazil.
Autodesk has released some images of the research going on to display Tone Mapping within the 3ds max viewport.
For the last couple of releases autodesk been pushing the state of GPU acceleration in 3ds Max. Autodesk have a fantastic team of PhD experts along with Neil Hazard looking into how we can leverage GPUs more and more.
PipelineFX, makers of Qube!™, the leading render farm management software for film and post production, game development, and digital media education around the world, today announced that it has released updates and enhancements to Qube! interfaces to several leading digital media applications.
The Qube! 3ds Max interface has been updated to support the latest release from Autodesk, 3ds Max 2009. Using the integrated plug-in for 3ds Max 2009, users can easily submit jobs into the render queue and take advantage of Qube!’s dynamic allocation technology. Dynamic allocation maximizes render throughput by loading the application and scene file only once, and then sending single frames to each render host until the job is complete. Faster hosts finish first and are dispatched another frame. All without having to re-load the application and the scene file. Using dynamic allocation with 3ds Max 2009 also allows users to scale up or down the number of render hosts allocated to a job on the fly.
Qube!’s interface to e-on software’s Vue renderer exposes all of the rendering options available for rendering natural 3D environments.
Qube!’s interface for Robert McNeel & Associates Rhino 3d provides CAD and design professionals with an easy way to submit, prioritize and manage renders.
Qube! is a complete, reliable render farm management system that eliminates the need for a watch folder for Aftereffects users. The Qube! Aftereffects interface provides support for the latest CS4 release from Adobe. Users open a submission dialogue from within the Adobe application and submit their renders. Jobs can then be managed and prioritized through the Qube! GUI along with all other render jobs in the queue. A single render farm can then be used to manage all 2D and 3D applications, maximizing overall rendering throughput.
Qube!’s interface for Animal Logic’s Mayaman allows users to submit their Maya scenes to be rendered with RenderMan compliant renderers such as Pixar’s PhotoRealistic RenderMan (PRMan), AIR and 3Delight. Renders can be managed through the Qube! GUI from any system on the network.
"Qube! Currently supports every digital media application on the market and we continue to pro actively enhance and update these interfaces to provide our customers with immediate access to the latest content creation software," said Troy Brooks, CEO of PipelineFX. “Qube!’s out of the box functionality across platforms and creative applications ensures our customers have an easy to use system without sacrificing next-generation render farm management features.”
