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

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

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.

Some of my favorites are

www.conceptartworld.com
www.cgsociety.org

I’ll keep updating this post as I go along

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 ….

In the newest version. To change the currently selected name in the list. Just type in the top text box and press enter. Note that the .ms file name remains unchanged if you do this.

You can download all my scripts here

If I want to get the best out of someone then I need a day to day instinct for what they can achieve, and what they need to do it. Pushing too hard can be as counter productive as pushing to little.

If I’m improvising with a band then I need a moment to moment instinct for where people are and what’s going to happen next. Some of this instinct is based on knowing the music some of it is based on knowing the people.

There are a bunch of techniques I use in art management and direction. I guess a good creative meeting is a bit like a good jam…

You can read the academic paper here

On the max os side the shortcut is ( Alt + 3 )
But if you use bootcamp the windows side the shortcut is ( Ctrl + Alt + 3 )

just so you know

There is an excellent tutorial on creating clouds in the presentation. It’s a very neat trick using vertex colours to bake the light into the mesh. When I get a chance I’ll try and create an in depth tutorial. about it.

Paths of Hate won the SIGGRAPH Jury Award and a number of animation festival awards. I’m trying to track down a copy of the movie to buy. I’ll probably end up buying a SIGGRAPH 2011 dvd of some sort.

Instructions and videos for these MaxScripts can be found here and on my
youtube channel