Favorite Plugins

[jlelievre]

Afterburn - Sitni Sati - must have if you do anything with particles
Pflow Tool Box - Oleg - a most valuable tool extension for particles in Max
Composite Mode - Michael Spaw - great for creating cool shaders
Color Correct - Cuneyt Ozdas - very useful for coloring your shaders
Better Wind - Grant Adams - an improvement on the much outdated wind Space Warp
Brazil R/S - Splutterfishes - need I say more
Brazil Buddy - Nathan Farriss - great tool for speeding up your Brazil workflow
Anything by Blur


just to name a few... :)

[-Vormav-]

Texporter - I'm still not completely sure why this one hasn't been built right into Max yet, but it's pretty essential.
Afterburn - Hard to learn, but great plugin.
PFlow Tools - It's worth is just for the Lock/Bond operator.

[heavyness]

lightmesh - puts omnis on every nth vert of an object
texporter - get those flat mesh out of max and into photoshop
brad nobles' rig - with this rig (http://www.brad-noble.com/) and Paul Neale's attribute holder, animation is fun!

[gjpetch]

Warp texture ("WarpTexture distorts one texture with another texture")
supernoise (like noise, but cooler.....)
simcloth
random walk (cool spacewarp by blur studios)
object texture by Peter Watje
Vray
Meshtools (mostly redundant these days, but it still has useful tools like tighten/relax and outline)
Freehand tools (draws splines and stuff on the surface of objects)
blur scripts such as wire jumble

Yay plugins!

[Rockin]

Greeble! - a must have (and also well known) - creates panels on the objects' surface. Helps you create geometry like a complex city or simply a star wars-like ship. (also used it in my 3d still for the wood planks). Just google for it.

Legolizer - by cthulu (hope I spelled that right) - transforms your objects into lego! Real cool.
To get it, do a forum search for legolizer.

[nueonyx]

Hey Rockin, about the greeble plugin your speaking of b4, is it a convinceing city builder?
I'm more of a MAYA guy, but ive been useing max for like 2 months now.. So anyway, im looking for something simular to maya's paint effect city mesh.. Or better. i dont care if the buildings are textured or not. Can N E 1 help me on this??:curious:

[Headless]

Texporter
Brazil
scripts rather than a plugins but Time in Motion Scripts (http://www.time-in-motion.com/) by Paul Hormis (of Blur/Blizzard cloth sim fame). Essential scripts if you're doing cloth sim (Conform Wrap is great).

[Terkonn]

afterburn, greeble, and the lovely brazil r/s

[nueonyx]

ahhh, n e know know where i can get a FREE, or trial version of afterburn3???

[andrewjohn81]

my favorite plugin is:

not final render

That's about it. We purchased it, used it a couple times, crashed a ton, and then we abandoned it. We basically purchased it because we wanted to be able to use the files that an outsource guy was using. We should have just told him to not use it.

nPower, for serious now, is actually the plugin that I'm swearing by. Definitely worth the money. It's really the only way to get nurbs into max. Anyone who says otherwise isn't a serious nurbs modeler.

[Matze4d]

i love final render, mostly because of the lightning fast and good GI.
Can't say anything bad about the stability... :shrug: its rocksolid :wip:

I loved hypermatter, but unfortunately this isnt available anymore since Max 2.5 :sad:

[DangerousCliff]

if so, then Plug-O-Matic rocks.

i've built up a library of custom primatives that i use on a more-than-daily basis. things from quad based basic primitave shapes, all the way to 0-level bodyparts for character creation.

but of course, Puppetshop is super high on my list.

[Verma]

I'm surprised not to see "Ghost Painter" by Cebas on the list.

[SamSed]

here are mine :
AfterBurn
PF toolBox :01
Texporter
Greeble
Ornatrix

and these (not plugins but think it's a must have )
realFlow and Zbrush

[Schnupps]

The little free helpers I can´t live without:

colorcorrect
advanced painter
blur script pack and some plugins
texporter
pinstack
Grants Timesubranges
Simbiont
Simcloth

And for older versions it was:
MapMatColor Rightclick
Solidify
Meshtools


Commercial:

Vray
CAT
most of the Turbotoolkit PlugIns
and soon it´ll be Polyboost I guess...

[Rockin]

To nueonyx:

No, greeble is not made specifically for building cities.. it's a bit hard to explain so check these:
www.schloerb.com/tutorial/greeblecity_1.htm

www.richardrosenman.com/greeble.htm

Btw great thread!

[treed]

Afterburn
Dreamscape
Brazil
Greeble
Simcloth

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[nueonyx]

To nueonyx:

No, greeble is not made specifically for building cities.. it's a bit hard to explain so check these:
www.schloerb.com/tutorial/greeblecity_1.htm

www.richardrosenman.com/greeble.htm

Btw great thread!


Ya, thanks i got it right after i posted, it's just what im looking for. My next project is Afterburn, if i can egt that.... All will be well :)

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