Free Scripts and plugins links

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Some of the scripts and plugins I’ve been using.

Greeble the legendary detailing plugin. Great for mocking things up quickly.

Neil Blevin has a big useful script pack Soulburn Scripts. He also has and interesting blog.

wrapit is great for retopologising hi res meshes in max

BerconMaps  procedural materials for Max: Wood, Noise, Tile, Gradient and Distortion. All of them are 3D maps except for Tile. They will work with scanline, V-Ray, finalRender and Brazil… BUT alas not Mental Ray.

clone is a free plugin that does what it says on the tin. I’ve been using it production. It’s stable and a great time saver.

Radial Symmetry not free but super cheap ($20) an awesome time saver and a great creative tool

 

Script Navigator bugs and features

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There was a bug that prevented you from adding scripts outside of the userscripts directory.

I’ve made some changes to the way the script handles paths. This should fix the bug. I’m going to sink test it for a few days to make sure I haven’t missed anything.

bug #2
“When i try to add another tab by pushing the”+”, it s asks for a name, if i say”cancel” , it does cancel the tab creation. but if i input some characters into the box, “abcd” and hit cancel, it still creates the tab.”

I hadn’t noticed this before…but… because of the way the maxScript editText gui works. It might be a bit tricky to fix. I’m going to have a think.
I may have to add another to “ok” the new tab name.

Feature Requests from scriptspot :

#1 – Ability to move the scripts up/down for better observaiton/alphabetical changes or behavioural order.(just like adjusting priorities in a download manager)

I have generic script for the dotNet list box which should do this. The dotNet list box is much prettier anyway so when I get a chance I’ll see if I can hook it up.

cheers guys

Biped key all … key all biped limbs with one click

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This is a tool for keying all your biped limbs in one click (including the root or COM ).

Simply select part of the biped and click ‘key’
This will set a TCB key at the current frame on all the biped limbs.

You can also delete all the keys at the current time using the ‘delete’ button.

It’s part of my script pack. You can download here

Keeping keys aligned is part of an organised keyframing style I use to animate efficiently. I generally key all the characters limbs at each key pose. So I wrote this tool to make the process faster.

How to remove the annoying windows 7 circle

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Having just reinstalled windows 7 on my laptop. I’m once again trying to find ways to kill off a few windows 7 ‘features’ that mess up Photoshop, 3dsMax, and WACOM tablets .

First things to remove are the annoying circles that appear when you are try to use a wacom tablet.

How to remove the pen and touch right click… (the radar circle)

1.Open the windows control panel.
2.Select ‘pen and touch’
3.In ‘pen options’ select ‘press and hold’ and press the settings button.
4.Uncheck the ‘enable press and hold for right-clicking’ option.
5.click ok to close the dialogs.

How to remove the splash circle.

1. Click windows start and type gpedit.msc into the command line
2. Click gpedit.msc from the programs list to open the ‘local group policy editor’
3. Navigate to… User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Tablet PC > Cursor.
4. Set ‘Turn off pen feedback’ to enabled

…. and then there’s windows uac to fix ….