3ds Max plugins — Page 7

Plugins for Autodesk 3ds Max: rendering, particles, fluids and smoke, scattering and parametric modeling. The catalog lists 420 plugins, 18 of them free or with a free version.

Motion GraphicsVFXParticlesSimulationRenderingModelingSculptingAnimationRiggingColor GradingScattering & VegetationUV UnwrappingMaterials & ShadersLightingCameraText & TitlesPresets & TemplatesAssets & LibrariesRetiming & SpeedImport & ExportInterface & UIWorkflow
Object-Bound Camera Clipping

rode3d

3ds Max script that drives a camera's near and far clipping planes from objects you pick in the scene.

Free3ds Max
Procedural Outlets and Switches

Vint26

3ds Max script that generates electrical outlets and switches with snapping, automatic wall holes and color options.

Free3ds Max
Mapping Operations

lbrooks

3ds Max script that applies align, bind, link, mirror and constrain between matched object sets through a mapping file.

Free3ds Max
Point Helper

Chuggnut

3ds Max script that makes a point helper lined up with two selected vertices, in a single button press.

Free3ds Max
NURMS Toggle

Martin Breidt

3ds Max macro that flips an Editable Poly between NURMS smooth-shaded display and base mesh with wireframe overlay.

Free3ds Max
maxCornellMaker

Nik Clark

3ds Max script that rebuilds the Cornell Box from Cornell University's original measurement data for render testing.

Free3ds Max
miauu's Modifiers' Gizmo Aligner

miauu

3ds Max script that aligns Symmetry, Slice and Mirror modifier gizmos by picking three points or snapping to a plane.

Free3ds Max
Rotate To Grid

FishMan

FishMan's 3ds Max script that turns an object so a selected edge lines up with the closest axis, judged from face normals.

Free3ds Max
Loop Animation

SimonBourgeois

3ds Max script that repeats the keyframes of selected objects into a loop for position, rotation and scale.

Free3ds Max
LightMatcher

Martin Breidt

3ds Max script that aligns a Free Spot light precisely with a camera, useful for projector lights in place of camera mapping.

Free3ds Max
MatchLightToView

Martin Breidt

3ds Max MAXScript that applies the Match Camera to View behavior to lights so they take on the current viewport.

Free3ds Max
ImportObj

SimonBourgeois

3ds Max script that imports one or many OBJ files with vertex colors, PBR textures and part-based naming handled automatically.

Free3ds Max
Camera List Navigator

kumodot

3ds Max script for stepping through every scene camera with arrows or a dropdown, with automatic timeline range detection.

Free3ds Max
miauu's Fit Camera to Objects

miauu

Commercial 3ds Max script that moves the active camera until selected objects fit in view, keeping FOV and focal length.

Free3ds Max
Divide Clone

dangtiendung

Quick 3ds Max script that fills the gap between two objects with clones of geometry, lights, cameras, shapes or groups.

Free3ds Max
Particle test code

Chuggnut

Experimental script-based particle system for 3ds Max with several particle types, gravity and wind resistance.

Free3ds Max
Selection Toolbox

JokerMartini

3ds Max script for batch selecting by viewport visibility, material state, instances, class, modifier, wirecolor or name search.

Free3ds Max
Vray ACES Convert

SimonBourgeois

3ds Max script that shifts V-Ray scenes and materials from a gamma-based setup to ACES OCIO, in batches if wanted.

Free3ds Max
Bonedaddy

Chuggnut

3ds Max script that saves a skinned mesh's vertex weights and restores them by index or position after mesh edits.

Free3ds Max
Camera exporter

Chuggnut

3ds Max script that writes camera position and lens data to a plain ASCII text file.

Free3ds Max
Light Excluder

Chuggnut

3ds Max script that includes or excludes a chosen object from selected lights with one button.

Free3ds Max
Poly Counter

Chuggnut

Small 3ds Max script that totals the polygons of several selected objects and shows the result in the prompt line.

Free3ds Max
Collapse and reset-X

Chuggnut

3ds Max utility that performs an export-ready reset XForm and collapse, with an attempt to fix flipped normals.

Free3ds Max
Freezer

Chuggnut

3ds Max macro that freezes animation, including space warp effects such as bombs, at the current frame.

Free3ds Max
Blender Scale

obaida

3ds Max script that brings Blender-style scaling to vertices, edges and polygons on splines, meshes and polys.

Free3ds Max
Tile Renderer

Chuggnut

3ds Max MaxScript that renders an image sequence into a single tiled bitmap, mainly for building game fonts.

Free3ds Max
Object renamer

Chuggnut

Classic free 3ds Max script by Chuggnut for renaming objects in a scene.

Free3ds Max
Diffuse On-Off

Chuggnut

3ds Max script that turns viewport diffuse texture display on or off for the selected objects, skipping the material editor.

Free3ds Max
fr Material2

Jon Seagull

MaxScript replacement for the finalRender material interface that gives compact rollouts and grouped lighting and raytracing controls.

Free3ds Max
AnimLayerCleaner

markulie

MAXScript that finds and removes bugged animation layers that slow a 3ds Max scene without raising errors.

Free3ds Max
Knot smooth

Chuggnut

3ds Max script by Chuggnut that smooths out Bezier spline knot handles.

Free3ds Max
Rate It

groutcho

3ds Max review script for validating, rejecting and rating scene objects with comments, annotations and an HTML report.

Free3ds Max
Skin_Or_Poly_Grow_Selection.ms

Paul Hormis

Single-file MaxScript by Paul Hormis that grows selections in Skin or Poly contexts, for 3ds Max 6 to 8.

Free3ds Max
NURBS stitch

Chuggnut

3ds Max script that joins two NURBS surfaces with tangent alignment while keeping their edges intact.

Free3ds Max
Bone info

Chuggnut

3ds Max Skin modifier utility that reads each selected vertex's bone assignments and weights and reports normalization.

Free3ds Max
Clay Mode Advanced

huynguyen

3ds Max script that applies a ZBrush and Mudbox style matcap clay look to the viewport through an on-the-fly ShaderFX override.

Free3ds Max
Rename helper

Chuggnut

3ds Max script for renaming several unique objects one after another, with the current object marked by a yellow box.

Free3ds Max
Drop4Side

Dong-Wook Kim

Places a four-sided image plane and a height box in the 3ds Max viewport, with hide and opacity controls for both and freeze for the plane.

Free3ds Max
GC Merger

MastaMan

3ds Max script by MastaMan that inserts Great Catalog 3D models into the scene with a single Download button.

Free3ds Max
Cut-n-Paste

Chuggnut

Quadmenu item for 3ds Max 4.x that copies one object's transform and pastes it onto another.

Free3ds Max
Batch Retopo

SimonBourgeois

3ds Max script that retopologizes many objects at once with symmetry and area-based density for consistent meshes.

Free3ds Max
Position measure

Chuggnut

3ds Max script that prints the distance between two objects, or two vertices of one object, in the prompt line.

Free3ds Max
MultiMatte Tamer

secondplace

3ds Max script for assigning Object IDs from a grid table and creating V-Ray MultiMatte render elements.

Free3ds Max
MoveAI To Biped Converter

Ishak Suryo Laksono

MaxScript that converts Move AI markerless motion capture animation into 3ds Max Biped motion.

Free3ds Max
Freeze anim

Chuggnut

3ds Max script that converts stack-based animation into vertex-based animation, without preserving space warp links.

Free3ds Max