Jonny Allen from Neoscape explains a very in-depth way to create vegetation and how you can populate a stadium with 3d people models using Forest Pack pro.

You can watch the video tutorial from :
http://blog.konng.com/wp/2012/02/20/forest-pack-pro-presentation-at-aauga-boston/

Vizpark has announced its two new plugins in open beta which is designed to add variation to your objects. Color Tools allows you to extract up to 100 colors from any photo and randomly assigns them to objects, object elements or even procedural maps in 3DS Max. The plugins are compatible with the scanline renderer, Mental Ray and V-Ray, and also works with Multiscatter and Forest Pack Pro.

The Crossmap plugin is a shader that randomly distributes bitmaps on geometry (objects, elements, faces etc.). Just select a folder with bitmaps and Crossmap does the rest.

Read More :
http://www.vizpark.com/shop/color-tools/
http://www.vizpark.com/shop/crossmap/

ScriptAttack announced the upcoming release of BonyFace 3.0. Bonyface is a facial animation system. The latest version of its commercial script for rigging and animating facial expressions. New features include an improved rig for eyes, mouth and jaw, enhanced controls, many UI changes, a lipsync layer, and more. BonyFace’s price will be raised after version 3.0 is released, it’s still being offered at the old price now along with a free update to the new version. Also take a note that ScriptAttack announced the upcoming development of BonyRig, a tool for rigging and animating whole characters.

Read More..
http://www.scriptattack.com/maxscripts/bonyface/Features.html