Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Most Wanted Plugins - 3ds Max

Multiscatter

Multiscatter

It’s a fabulous scattering tool that works with V-Ray and Mental Ray both. We know that even with identical objects, the file size grows and grows, especially in a heavy scene. Not to worry using Multiscatter. It handles the file size smartly and effectively. It can also upload and download from VRayProxy memory when needed. So, go create your city scene with lots of buildings, trees, or even furry carpets and rugs without having to worry much about the file size.

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Forest Pack

Forest Pack

This plugin is designed to create vast surfaces of trees and plants. It has a support for Mental Ray, VRay, VRayRT, Maxwell Render, Octane, Arion, Thea Render and Corona Renderer..huff. It also includes a plant library with more than 100 models. If you want to give it a try, you can also download Forest Pack lite which is a free version of the plugin.

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RailClone

RailClone

It’s a must have tool for architects and interior designers. It’s a plugin for modelling with parametric support based on custom geometry parts. You can create fences, railings, walls bridges, stairs, to name a few. Also you get a predefined style library. The whole plugin is defined by some construction rules.

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Rayfire

RayFire

Want to create destruction, shattering, fragmentation, wrecking, bursting or things of these kind? Rayfire plugin may come  in handy. It has an Interactive Demolition system which creates dynamic simulation and demolishes objects depending upon their material and collision strength. Check it out and discover the great deal of features.

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Realflow

RealFlow

It’s an industry standard award winning plugin basically used for simulating fluids. It is compatible with almost all major 3D platforms like 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, etc. With this plugin it is possible to mimic the behavior of objects under certain natural forces like gravity, wind, etc.

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Krakatoa

Krakatoa

This plugin is a volumetric particle rendering, manipulation and management toolkit. It provides a pipeline for acquiring, caching, transforming, modifying, shading and rendering vast quantities of particles at unprecedented speed to represent natural phenomena like dust, smoke, silt, ocean surface foam, plasma and even solid objects. Krakatoa is available for 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D and as a stand-alone renderer. It has been used in many popular movies like Harry Potter, Avatar, GI Joe, The Avengers, Superman Returns…to name a few.

G.I.Joe - The Rise Of Cobra
G.I.Joe – The Rise Of Cobra : Krakatoa was used to render the Nanomites in the tank destruction sequence in the beginning and the Night Raven jet over the White House in the second half of the movie.

Avatar
Avatar : Krakatoa was used for the rendering of the holotable projections

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

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Ivy Generator

Ivy Generator

It lets you grow ivy on 3d objects. All you have to do is to place the seed the next to your desired model and click “Grow Ivy”.

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MadCar

MadCar

This plugin is for quick rigging of wheeled vehicles and animating them. With the newer version you can rig vehicles with any number of wheels that includes cars, bikes, trucks, etc.

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Thinking Particles

Thinking Particles


It’s a particle simulator but not like the native 3ds Max particle flow. It is a non-linear and procedural animation technology. It is controlled by rules and conditions, not by events or timers. It’s an ultimate pack for creating rigid-soft bodies, vehicle simulations, vertex particles, fragments and many more. It’s used in movies like The Avengers, Battleship, Snow White and the Huntsman, Captain America 2, Thor 2, etc.

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Mighty Tiles Pro

Mighty Tiles

It lets you ease the work of creation of procedural floor and wall textures. It generates high quality textures of brick walls, tiles, parquet, laminate, cobble stones and much more. It comes with an organisation tool called Mighty Library. It is a time saver with great flexibility with high quality rendering being independent from camera settings. You can choose from multiple predefined patterns including complex shapes and yes, repetition of block structures is a thing of the past if you are using Mighty Tiles Pro. It can put variation in arrangement, transformation and color. Doing so many things and yet it saves much memory.

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GrowFX

GrowFX

Want to create a tree on your own? Here is GrowFX which lets you create plants, trees, flowers and other nature models in a parametric form with multiple parameters for spice, age, grow direction, wind and animation.

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BonesPro

BonesPro

It lets you do fast, efficient and better organic skinning of characters and objects. This awesome tool allows you to create high quality skin meshes rapidly with easy-to-understand bone influences and vertex assignments, impressive real-time skin-deformations and special-effects. Now no more intersections, jiggling muscles, muscle/object collisions in areas like elbows and knees.

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Courtesy : http://tutons.com/3ds-max-wanted-plugins/