Face Switcher (Now Available)

I've been asked about this for a long time now so here it is. This is a generic public version of the script seen in my tech demo. Its been revised to allow an easy setup of 2D facial animation in 3d with texture maps.

Enjoy!

Camera Shake (watch the video)

This script was spawned by a friend of mine to make a better way of dealing with simple camera shake. It seems straight foward until you have to setup camera shake and quickly you find it becomes a tweak fest.

Well this little script will certainly ease the pain. Easy to setup and works with both Vray Cams & Standard Max Cams. 2 Layers of noise controls plus Camera Roll noise controls.

Tearing Cloth Max 2010

Covers the new and very cool tearing/ripping cloth feature in max 2010.

Cloth Max 2010 "Beachball Softbodies"

Just a quick tutorial on one of the new cloth features. You can inflate closed objects to simulate softbodies or inflatable objects. Simple beachball example.

Cloth Preset HERE:

LipSync_Plugin Modifier

This is just a WIP and to show how this plugins works. A version will be available soon for beta testing. The idea is for a simple modifer to control any character's lipsync morph targets from one UI. Take a look at the video to see how it works and why it might be useful.

FREE Simple Car Rig

This is a free 3ds max file. It combines 3 video tutorial examples into one useable simple car rig. Simple car rig, Surface Follow, & Rotations.

You can download the Max2008 File HERE:

Material Tweaker

A very useful script for making lots of material adjustments. It works with Vray material, Standard material, & ArchDesign materials.

This script was recently created during a production to save a ton of time making massive material changes. Check out the video.

Spline Dynamic RT Bridge (simple rig example)

Here's just another way to do something in 3d. Making a dynamic bridge using simple rigging tools in max. This tutorial also uses the SIK Springs maxscript for part of the rig setup. Real-Time dynamics for a simple bridge rig.

Hair Tweaker

New maxscript - A simple UI for making hair tweaks much faster. Just check out the video.

Reactor Toy Car

OK so this is something that has been in reactor for a while now and it still seems to be a little uknown gem. There are a few ways to use it and its an easy setup for what it does. Keep in mind "toy-car" means that. So simple cars colliding, falling, crashing, is what it does best.

4 NEW - Maxscripts explained in one video tutorial

Spring Helper - SIK Springs - Mod Toggler - Link Constraint Floater

Maxscript for the Artist - Part 3B

Part 3B continues from part A with the break down of how the mental ray sun setup has been created.

Maxscript for the Artist - Part 3A

Part 3A covers creating a mental ray sun setup. Another example of why you might need a maxscript for something like this. Creating a simple but useful custom script.

Maxscript for the Artist - Part 2

Part 2 covers the creating darg n drop macros and custom macroscripts. Simple and easy way to create a macro that will center the selected objects pivot point. Again no programming knowledge required.

Maxscript for the Artist - Part 1

I wanted to put together a series of simple maxscript videos for the artist. An easy way to use maxscript without having to know anything about programming. Part one covers the listner window and a production example.

Fluid Dress with Glu Baker

This tutorial was made for the release of the glu baker plugin. It works with glu3D to bake the particiles to disc similar to point cache. Allows for fluid cache time offsetting & re-meshing.

Cache Bar - maxscript

This script replaces the PC Change Multi script. This video will explain some point cache methods and how to use this maxscript. Cache out multiple objects at once. Automatically load cache files onto yoru objects and more. Inspired by the Blur pipeline tools.

Viewport Tag Info - maxscript

Simple yet useful way of using a viewport slider. Tag your viewport with the max file information, great for playblast's that need to be reivewed during production.

Fluid Rain

Using Pflow with Glu3d to create a simple but easy way to do fluid rain drops. Also covers creating the wet map texture sequence.

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XUI Floater Script

This explains how to use the XUI floater script. Something to help the work flow while in exper mode in 3dsmax.

Arch Design Material Script

This explains how to use the mental ray Arch Design Material floater script. Make changes to AD matererials based on selections.

Glue3d Fluid Attractors

Want to use an object to influence your fluid motion? This is an easy way to orchestrate your fluids by using glues object attractor spacewarps.

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2D Facial Animation in 3D (Production Example)

This is sort of a tech demo but gives a little insight to how you can setup 2D facial animation in 3d with texture maps. Another production example.

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Sticking to a surface without Scripting (Production Example)

Locking geometry down to a surface without scripting using standard max tools. This technique can be used for locking down tires to a surface on a car rig (Independent Suspension anyone)

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Simple Car Rig

A way to setup a simple car rig to get body motion & wheels rotating. This technique could be taking a lot further but gives you a great base to start.

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Pulling Cloth Apart

Another tutorial about cloth. Using some of the group features which can be very useful. Simple solution to rip/pulling cloth apart. Enjoy.

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Cloth(Another use for cloth...blowing leaves)

This will give you other ideas for using cloth simulations. This technique could be used for blowing papers or anything around and using cloth you can get some really cool results.

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Glue3D (Filling a container & more)

Covers a basic fluid setup for filling a container in the latest version of Glue 3D. Using presets and explaining some options you have with the fluid simulation.

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Point Cache Script (Multiple Changes)

Covers a very useful script that's available for download on my website. Script for making mass changes to multiple objects that have a point cache modifier applied

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Rotations and Automation

This tutorial is to discuss a few methods to get automatic rotations in 3dsmax. First a very quick way to keep an object rotating over time. Then another method for rotations using wire parameters and expose transform node.

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Pflow & Mocap controller

Creating a write on effect using the motion capture controller and particle flow. Simple yet powerful write on setup using pflow.

Pflow for landscaping

Setting up landscaping on terrain can be time consuming. Let pflow do the work for you. This tutorial covers a simple setup to do just that with lots of random placement controls.

CG Bubble wiht Mental Ray

This is a process to setup a real looking bubble effect using mental ray. This was an older tutorial written before the new arch/design materials which would be adapted to this method.

Mental Ray & Render Elements

This goes through the process of setting up render elements and using mental ray.

HDRI with Max 9

This covers some methods for using HDRI in 3dsmax 9. In max 2008 there is even more that you can do with an HDRI setup than discussed in this tutorial. Look for a new tutorial soon.

Fast Sub Surface Scattering Shader (MR)

This may not be a correct or accurate tutorial but does try to break it down into simple terms. I always found setting up SSS with mental ray seemed too technical in the shader. This tutorial will try to break it down into a way that easy to use.

Hair base mod

Max 8 - Max 9

Snapshot to Edit_Poly

Point Cache Change Multi

ArchDesign Material Mass Change Floater

XUI Floater V1.c

Updated:11/07/08 ~ added to the toggles right-click (ram player & playblasts)

Viewport Tag Info V2.0 Updated 1/15/09

SwitchMaps

(swap all texture map extensions in the scene)