MAX Plugins.de News Archive

Archived Plugin News  –  February 2019
 

Plugin Update: Modelling / Animation

Changes for v6.1.3.18836 are
- Adds an option to Mesh from Strands to inherit texture coordinates directly from hair
- Guides from Mesh now copies all distribution mesh texture channels into the output hair
- Hair from Guides now copies all distribution mesh texture channels into the output hair
- Adds a strand group parameter to the Symmetry modifier
- Fixes Multiplier Groups not working
- Fixes a ClumpModifier crash when picking a pattern from the viewport
- Having invalid guide dependencies in Hair from Guides no longer leads to a crash
- The Symmetry modifier no longer produces empty results for non-matching groups
- The Adopt External Guides modifier now properly matches roots based on distance
- Fixes the Symmetry node not preserving strand widths
- Improvements to circle area interpolation regarding curved meshes and irregular guide spacing

Ornatrix is available for Max 2014 to 2019 and costs $599. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Renderers

Changes for v2.6.34 are:
- Fixes a Max bug introduced in 2.6.33 that could cause a crash when rendering poly meshes
- Fixes a Max bug where file output gamma compensation is applied for HDR outputs
- Fixes a Max bug where proxy export threw an exception with render element filenames
- Adds Max options to override Post FX outputs
- Adds material names list in Redshift Proxy UI in Max
- Updates the bundled Max scene converter script to version 0.27
- Fixed a Maya bug where the renderer crashed if the RedshiftPhysicalSun was deleted or hidden
- Fixes a Maya bug that prevented single frame or IPR rendering through the shelf or menu
- Fixes a Maya bug where the OCIO and LUT files would not save correctly
- Adds initial C4D support for a Commander-like UI in the ShaderGraph Editor
- Adds initial C4D support for the LOD object
- The C4D ShaderGraph Editor now allows material previews to be moved above the Attribute Editor
- Fixes a C4D bug in IPR where the volumetric lighting would be reset under certain conditions
- Fixes a C4D bug with the visibility attribute not working for Matrix objects in emitter mode
- Fixes a C4D bug where creating Camera from Redshift menu did not always add the RS Camera tag
- Fixes a C4D bug that led to a C4D hang when a material preview scene contained a proxy object
- Fixes a C4D crash on OSX during Picture Viewer renders when post-effects are enabled
- Fixes a Houdini crash if the RenderView is closed while the ROP node is rendering
- Slightly improves point clouds extraction time in Houdini
- Addresses a Houdini issue with custom cryptomatte IDs in the first frame rendered
- Adds a new FOV angle parameter to the fisheye camera settings in Houdini
- Fixes a RenderView bug where Post FX were not applied when saving Multi-Layer EXR
- Fixes a bug that would reduce photon color accuracy when more than 10m photons are shot
- Improves scene pre-processing performance for millions of instances
- RedshiftCmdLine now skips postFX processing for deepEXR files
- Multipart EXR is now disabled behind the scenes for deepEXR files
- Fixes a deepEXR crash bug introduced in 2.6.33
- Fixes a bug allowing for a bokeh aspect ratio of zero which could produce render crashes
- Fixes a bug with unexpected texture sampling variation for light textures through volume rays

Redshift is available for Max 2013 to 2019 and costs $500. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Modelling

Changes for v2.0 are:
- Adds SmoothStroke function for clean strokes
- Adds Canvas for quickly sketching on a planar surface
- Adds X/Y/Z symmetry
- Custom splines can now be selected for precision
- Adds Turbosmooth with isoline display option
- Adds a bulge value spinner
- Adds a brush size spinner
- Adds a SmoothStroke spinner
- Adds 'Turbosmooth enabled' and isoline display options
- Adds a custom path button
- Adds a button for canvas creation
- Fixes a turbosmooth problem when attaching objects with isoline display selected
- Technical improvements and other bug fixes

PolyDetail is available for Max 2016 to 2019 and costs $39.


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v1.2.0 are
- FAdds an option to add a screengrab preview image and a description text for scenefiles
- Adds a 'Plugins' tab in Prism Settings to reload/unload plugins and to create new plugins
- Adds an option to restore a shot/asset when trying to create a new one with the same name
- Adds a new Houdini HDA workflow
- Exporting editable ROPs inside locked HDAs is now possible in Houdini
- Adds support for Blender 2.8 and the latest 2.79 builds
- Adds a Maya option to preserve namespaces when exporting alembic files to other DCC apps
- Adds a 'Preserve references' option in Maya when exporting as .ma, .mb or .rs
- Prism tools are now available from the main menu bar of the Blender UI
- Maya playblasts are now created without the resolution gate, even if enabled in the viewport
- Many bug-fixes and minor improvements


Plugin Update: Modelling

Changes for v2.0.0 are:
- Adds new base shape options
- Adds more roof design options
- Adds stackable windows
- Adds roof windows
- Adds chimneys
- Adds an optimize option
- Adds an autobackup option
- Adds a new window selection mode
- Adds options to save/load roof templates
- Adds an on/off option for each facade
- Adds windows number references
- The Undo function now works for most of the parameters
- The UI has been reorganized
- The script has a new object class ID and now creates an 'FAHouse' object type
- Window copy/paste no longer considers the vertical value
- Beams now have an individual length for each slope
- Several general bug-fixes

Fast Housing is available for Max 2016 to 2019 and costs $25. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v9.0.11 are:
- A Python interpreter called mpython (based on Python 3.3.1) is now distributed with Muster
- The Guerilla connector now supports frames specified in the passes tab
- The Cinema 4D connector now sends the correct image output mask when submitting a job
- The Maya Redshift templates now let you specify the GPU usage on an instance basis
- The Houdini hython render template now correctly handles GPU usage for GPU based renders
- Frames mask detection now also works with filenames with only numbers i.e. 0001.exr
- Adds a new template for Maya Octane
- Updates the Maya connector to support Maya Octane
- Connectors are now installed in the Connectors folder when installing the client tools
- Fixes some fields across templates having substitution enabled even when they shouldn't
- Fixes an issue where Pyside.QtGui couldn't be imported on some Linux distributions
- A new Linux and Raspberry installation script can now install, upgrade and remove automatically
- Repositories are now correctly filtered in the web interface if assigned to just one user
- Repositories now have a flag to specify if they should be visible in the web interface
- Fixes the job filtering bar not reloading departments or users during a full queue refresh
- Repository paths now have better error checking
- Fixes a Console preferences bug where some settings were not saved
- Fixes a template editor error when trying to change the template ID from the interface
- Fixes an error caused by frame masks where Console was not able to open the output folder
- Depending on your screen DPI, menu icons are no longer overlapping with the text
- You can now specify a source platform when submitting a job through the REST APIs
- Fixes the Python examples having the connection port still pointing to the Muster 8 one
- The SDK is now installed when you select the client tools
- Minor fixes in the SDK samples as well as in the MClientAPI functions dealing with logs

Muster is available for Max 6 to 2019 and costs $85 per node. A demo version is available here.


New Plugin: Modelling

SubSpline is an advanced sub-object selector and material ID editor for spline shapes in Max. With it you can easily expose on screen the vertex numbers and material IDs for all of your selected shapes, and take advantage of cutting-edge tools for spline sub-object selection that complement and extend Max's standard tools: shrink/grow selection, offset selection, dot selection, random selection, and more. You can also accurately manage and control the material ID assignment for your spline curves and their segments: quick buttons, predefined patterns, offset IDs, randomize IDs, etc. This is really useful for controlling materials in spline modeling, hair plugins or procedural modelling plugins like RailClone.

SubSpline is available for Max 2012 to 2019 and normally costs $18. For a limited time you can get a license for $9.


Plugin Update: Renderers

Changes for v2.6.33 are:
- Fixes a Max bug in sequence rendering where materials could go missing after the first frame
- Fixes a Max bug in sequence rendering where container objects disappear after the first frame
- Fixes a Max bug affecting metallic flakes on RS Car Paint material
- Fixes missing parameter names on several Redshift materials in Max
- Fixes missing parameter names on all Math and Color shaders in Max
- Adds Max support for RS Color Constant shader
- Adds Max support for linked mesh display for RS Proxy
- Adds support for Maya 2019
- Adds Alt+Right Mouse button to move the interactive camera forward and back in Maya
- Selecting an item from a shelf popup menu now performs the action and changes the shelf button
- The Redshift shelf in Maya now updates without deleting custom shelf buttons created on it
- Removes the prompt before updating the Redshift shelf in Maya
- Fixes a Maya issue rendering XGen IGS motion blur when animation evaluation was set to DG
- Fixes a Maya batch rendering issue where cached Maya Fluids would not update properly
- Fixes an issue with interactive camera causing Maya's rotation to be incorrect
- Fixes a Maya issue where modifying a keyable attribute would reset to the keyed value
- Fixes a Maya crash bug deleting or disconnecting nodes from the Redshift Hair Position node
- Adds Maya support for unix-style environment variables in proxy and vdb file paths
- Makes significant improvements to the interactivity and performance of the IPR in C4D
- Adds C4D support for treating the MoGraph Matrix object as a particle emitter
- Adds C4D ShaderGraph editor options to hide the material preview and node information text
- Adds C4D support for previewing animated texture sequences in the viewport
- Improves C4D material preview VRAM usage when multiple scenes are open
- Fixes a C4D crash issue when rendering objects with extreme transforms
- Fixes a C4D issue where material edits sometimes weren't reflected to material previews
- Adds camera switcher nodes to available cameras in the Houdini RS RenderView cameras selector
- Fixes Houdini scene corruption if the Render View rendering was launched while saving the scene
- Fixes a Houdini stylesheet rendering limitation related to multiple overrides
- Fixes a Houdini bug in the alembic procedural OBJ level transformations
- The Houdini 'Override IPR Camera Resolution' ROP node option is now disabled by default
- Fixes the Houdini choose operator window in several RS ROP options to include the /mat context
- Fixes a Houdini crash rendering volumes with a single vector type velocity grid
- Adds a new 'RS VOP Switch' node to rewire the input to the output at scene extraction time
- Fixes a Houdini problem in the RSLight while working with textures including an alpha channel
- Fixes the Houdini shop_materialpath attribute override to match the Mantra behavior
- Fixes the Houdini point-based SSS rendering after switching to buckets mode in the RenderView
- Adds a Houdini option in the RS ROP node to set the COP and HDA embedded cache files directory
- Adds a possible solution for Houdini RenderView problems in MacOS while working in HiDPI mode
- Adds Katana support for point cloud geometry.point.scale / rotate / rotationPP attributes
- Adds a 'Rebuild (prepass only)' option for photons
- Fixes an issue where black+transparent environment shader results made it into deepEXR data
- Adds new deep sample merge mode: MeshID
- Optimizes pre-processing stage that took minutes to process scenes with 100k+ meshes/instances

Redshift is available for Max 2013 to 2019 and costs $500. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Import / Export

Changes for v2.0 are
- Adds support for Maya 2019
- Adds support for Max 2019
- Adds 'Import as Arnold'
- Adds 'Import as Mental Ray'
- Adds 'Import as Redshift'
- Bug-fixes

MaxToMaya is available for Max 2014 to 2019 and normally costs $49. For a limited time you can get a license for $29.


Plugin Update: Modelling

Changes for v3.02 are:
- Adds 'Local Variations' options to make your models look less procedural

ATree3D Pro is available for Max 7 to 2019 and costs €50. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Import / Export

Changes for v3.912 are
- Fixes a major bug installing/updating WW into Max 2016 and older after recent UI updates
- Updates the cull objects list to select / unhide a cull object when double-clicked in the list
- Fixes a few bugs with Cluster Source nodes in the Convert Scene to Model function
- Fixes the Remove button not removing objects from the current visgroup in the Visgroup Manager
- Fixes recently broken function to get all other instances of the current MDL node
- Starter Kits: Fixes spawns needing to be above the ground
- Starter Kits: Fixes incorrect Material Names on the brush entities added with the CS presets

Wall Worm Pro is available for Max 9 to 2019 and normally costs $50.


Plugin Update: Renderers

Changes for v4.02.1 - 6.14 are:
- Updates to Octane render 4.02.1
- Fixes a bug with the orthographic camera aperture
- Adds a setting to change the localDB directory
- Adds EXR output options to the kernel settings

OctaneRender is available for Max 2013 to 2019 and costs $619. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Renderers

Changes for v1.3.0a are:
- Adds FStorm network rendering
- Fixes network rendering not working with the production render
- Fixes a network rendering crash
- Fixes incorrect logging when network rendering with RT

FStormRender is available for Max 2014 to 2019 and costs €20 per month. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Import / Export

Changes for v2.0 are
- Adds support for Blender 2.80
- Adds support for Eevee + PBR Materials
- Adds support for Max 2019
- Bugfixes

MaxToBlender is available for Max 2014 to 2019 and normally costs $49. For a limited time you can get a license for $29.


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v1.0.3 are:
- Fixes a Redo error

FloorGen Tools is available for Max 2013 to 2019 and costs $7.


Plugin Update: Modelling / Animation

Changes for v6.1.2.18626 are
- Adds an option to add strand detail by length
- Adds a parameter to rotate clump patterns around the clump's stem
- You can now match control / reference strands in Adopt External Guides modifier using distance
- Adds Chinese localization
- Changes the default root distribution to Even
- Fixes an installed Ornatrix toolbar not containing new operators
- Fixes Moov strand stiffness differing in different parts of the hair object
- Fixes a crash when using Round clumps option with manually selected clumps and a clump pattern
- 'Use Sequential Ids' now produces sequential root ids with Vertex and Even distributions
- Fixes a Moov Cosserat model bug with root holder
- Fixes GenerateStrandData being wrong when using the 'is inside object' generation method
- Fixes MoovPhysics particle mass parameters to have a more predictable effect on the simulation
- Fixes HairFromMeshStrips 'Add Strip ID Channel' option adding too many channels
- Fixes HairFromMeshStrips 'Add Strip ID Channel' option not properly updating the output
- Fixes HairFromMeshStrips Strand Groups not being applied correctly

Ornatrix is available for Max 2014 to 2019 and costs $599. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Renderers

Changes for v4.2.5 are
- Fixes Max 2019.3 crashing if the plugin was installed
- Maxwell Proxies didn't cast shadows if the original object was hidden
- Maxwell toolbar now remembers its position in Max 2019 from one session to another
- Max no longer crashes after using the 'Send Job to Network' button from Render Setup window
- Fixes a Max crash when adding Maxwell Scatter or Grass when Maxwell isn't set as render engine
- MxLight in Area mode now points to the correct side when using the GPU engine
- Updates the Vray to Maxwell converter script so it can handle the Metalness parameter correctly
- Tweaks the Vray to Maxwell conversion when a falloff map is used in the Reflect slot

Maxwell Render is available for Max 2011 to 2019 and costs €695. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v2.94.72 are:
- Adds the ability to use active URL's in the Comment textbox
- Drops support for Max 2012
- Fixes some issues with copy/move directories
- Fixes some interface issues

Project Manager is available for Max 2013 to 2019 and costs $75. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Import / Export

Changes for v2.10 are
- Adds experimental support for WebXR (eXtended Reality on the Web)
- The Industrial Robot demo has been upgraded to serve as a VR demonstrator
- The app creation dialog now offers 2 app templates: Standard and Code-Based
- Adds the possibility to enable Internet Explorer 11 and legacy VR compatibility modules
- Application update procedure has been simplified
- Upgrades the default cube templates once again to use the recommended physically based pipeline
- First-person controls can now be enabled in Max or Blender
- Loading / unloading scenes is now supported via Puzzles or JavaScript
- Adds the possibility to pause and resume rendering via JavaScript
- Adds the possibility to lower the frame rate via JavaScript
- Implements the JavaScript method dispose() for freeing CPU and GPU resources
- Adds new 'is visible' puzzle for checking if an object is visible or hidden
- Adds new 'get material' puzzle for retrieving the material of an object
- Adds new 'screenshot' puzzle for capturing a screenshot and returning it in data URI format
- New 'all variable names' puzzle returns a list of the names of all variables used
- New 'variable value by name' puzzle is like the variable value puzzle without the dropdown
- All object, material and animation puzzles now work with names specified with a Text puzzle
- The tween camera puzzle now works for the Flying camera type
- Adds experimental support for saving and restoring the application state via Puzzles
- Adds a Dictionary (aka map) data type to puzzles
- Adds experimental support to send / receive data over the network in plain text or JSON format
- Material presets now support the Output map and Output panel for the Bitmap map
- Material presets now support the Roughness Inv switch for Physical materials
- Verge3D's Network cache timeout was decreased to 15 minutes (was 1 hour)
- Adds an auto configure option to the Max installer to automatically set Verge3D plug-in paths
- Rendering order and frustum culling options are now available for objects in Max
- The WordPress plugin now supports orders sent in JSON format
- The WordPress plugin now allows for customizing the notification email and the admin page
- Fixes the issue with aliasing when transparent background is enabled
- gltf scenes created by third-party exporters now can be loaded in a Verge3D application
- Fixes the black screen rendering problem on mobile Firefox
- Fixes the bug where the SSAO effect produced a pixelized effect on startup
- Fixes a bug which prevented cloning a non-Orbit camera
- Fixes a bug with the 'when clicked' puzzle not working with the Flying camera types
- Fixes a bug when scaling objects with the transform puzzle

Verge3D is available for Max 2015 to 2019 and costs $290. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v3.94 are
- Fixes an error when converting Architectural Materials with 'Show Maps in Viewport' enabled
- Some code optimizations and speedup of conversion process

V-RayMtl Converter is available for Max 2013 to 2019 and costs $22.


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v1.72.12 are:
- Adds new 'Select duplicated filenames' function
- Adds new 'Filter by Asset Type or File Type' function
- Adds conversion of Tx or other images to Tif
- Bitmaps can now be converted to 2-bit indexed black and white bitmap for opacity maps
- Show on list where bitmap loader is located (parent / above) slot, name and class

Bitmap Tracking/Resizing is available for Max 2009 to 2019 and costs $9. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v9.0.10 are
- Fixes a bug that caused the Dispatcher to stall when assembling multiple slice images
- The Dispatcher auto update from 8.5 queues now checks if db_jobs_data contains redundant values
- Multiple backup LDAP servers can now be specified with a comma (only for authentication)
- The internal image library now supports TIFF files with Z compression enabled
- The job.getFramesRange() Python return value now returns a usable list of MFrameRanges objects
- Fixes a critical issue with templates synchronization that caused endless sync loops
- Adds a new template to support Guerilla Render 2+
- Adds a new connector for Guerilla Render 2+ to the download section
- Adds a new template to support Houdini Render though hython instead of hrender
- Adds a new template to support Corona standalone render
- Adds a new template to support DJV convert batch process
- Adds a new template to support Python scripts execution
- The Maya Renderman template has been updated to support Renderman version 22+
- Adds a new template to support PRMan RIB Renders (Renderman)
- The Clarisse CNode template has been updated to support version 4+
- Adds a new connector for Clarisse to the download section
- The Maya mental ray single frame assembler now correctly supports batch rendering EXR files
- Console now warns if you try to create a support with a UID less than 1000
- Fixes a Console issue so gamma values and colors are now saved correctly in the MAC preferences
- The Console open output folder function is now smarter
- Adds a Console option to add a chunk's renderer to the job's excluded pools automatically
- Fixes a bug where the Notificator was automatically opening images on wrong events

Muster is available for Max 6 to 2019 and costs $85 per node. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v1.81 are
- Fixes an error when turning off the Physical Camera target with 'Autodetect Animation' on

AE Transfer is available for Max 2012 to 2019 and costs $5.


Plugin Update: Modelling

Changes for v1.0.2 are:
- Fixes the 'Select only unhidden FG objects' function

FloorGen Tools is available for Max 2013 to 2019 and costs $7.


Plugin Update: MCG

Changes for v1.1 are
- Adds position and orientation offsets to the Velocity Transform Controller
- Adds a button to pick a start node to the Velocity Transform Controller


Plugin Update: Utilities

Changes for v1.0 are:
- Adds support for Max 2019
- Performance improvements

NewView VR v1.0 has also been updated to support Max 2019.

NewView is available for Max 2015 to 2019 and costs $100. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Modelling / Texturing

Changes for v6.1.5 are
- Adds compatibility with V-Ray Next Update 1
- Adds support for Viewport IPR mode
- Items now can be edited in Custom Edit mode while using V-Ray IPR
- Forest Color's randomise by Element mode now works during IPR mode even in Proxy Display mode
- Fixes a crash that occurred when hiding or isolating objects during a V-Ray IPR render
- FP objects no longer disappear in the viewport when rendering using IPR mode in Corona
- Network Licenses are now released on New File and Reset events in Max
- Improves scattering performance and memory usage with small/medium distributions
- Improves performance when loading objects with high material ID values
- 'LibraryDir' and 'EffectsDir' can now be defined using environment variables
- Removes support for Max 2012
- Fixes the alignment of the first item on closed splines when using Distribution by Path mode
- Fixes zero spacing in Distribution by Path generating the max items defined in Display limits
- Fixes an issue where animated Effects parameters were not updating correctly
- Fixes an error with configs defined by environment variables and a missing HKCU registry branch
- Fixes a performance issue loading objects with high material ID values
- Fixes a crash that occurred when adding items in Custom Edit when the Geometry List is empty
- Fixes a bug computing the hierarchy of Elements in Custom Objects

Forest Pack Pro is available for Max 2013 to 2019 and costs €220. A demo version is available here.


Plugin Update: Renderers

Changes for v4.02 - 6.13 are:
- Updates to Octane render 4.02
- Updates Planetary Environment, replacing axis and angle by latitude and longitude settings
- Fixes drag and drop of texture maps on OSL parameters
- Fixes processing of animated objects when they are empty on first render

OctaneRender is available for Max 2013 to 2019 and costs $619. A demo version is available here.