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In case you run multiple backburner managers (e.g. on notebook at several places or using local manager and manager in office) it is good idea to have icons for automatic connecting monitor to the different manager hosts.

I've found two working command line parameters for monitor.exe:

monitor -a
monitor -mservername

First one turns "Auto connect" on. Second one sets manager hostname and connects to it. (Note: There is no space between -m and hostname or ip)

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Makes vray proxies simply by selection objects and target vraymesh directory.

Modo selections style in 3ds max, but only for edges.

Assign a hotkey(or button), select 2 verts/edges/faces woth desired gap between them and start pressing your hotkey.

Work only with Editable Poly objects

Instalation:
Drag-n-drop "StepGapEdgeLoop_v10.mse" in 3ds max. Go to Customize-Customize User Interface. Under "miauu" category you will find "Step Gap Edge Loop Right to Left"

Big thanks to Anubis for his help.

Modo selections style in 3ds max. Assign a hotkey(or button), select 2 verts/edges/faces woth desired gap between them and start pressing your hotkey. :)

Instalation: Drag-n-drop StepGapVEPRing.mse in 3ds max. Go to Customize - Customize User Interface. Under "miauu" category you will find "Step Gap VEP Ring Left-Right" and "Step Gap VEP Ring Right-Left"

Big thanks to Anubis for his help.

"This utility allows you to define groups of lights - for easy management. You can then turn all the lights in the group On/Off and Hide/Unhide them. It is useful for task such as having the same scene with day/night light schemes, or when you have to dead with an important amount of lights.

This script is an update of Light Grouper, you can find on scriptspot. It now supports vrayShadows, and Vrayshadowmaps"

(Main UI interface)

( Minimize UI )

This is collections of script that I found in scriptspot.com and tweak it a little, I compile it into one file and add to it some of my tool ....so here is some of what this script can do

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Download tweaker on my website: http://www.colinsenner.com  (click "Scripts" at the top)

Changelog from version .08:
- Now includes support for tweaking any property controller applied to an object
- Includes support for tweaking the sun/sky system hours and days, to select the entire assembly you need to use the "Pick List" button.
- Includes minor UI tweaks, like the ability to not display all of the images after the renders are done, thanks for the suggestion Br0t.

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If you haven't clicked the banner above - make sure to head on over to The Area for the 20th Anniversary of Autodesk 3ds Max!

What it does:
Condenses material ID's Based on the texture name or material name.

How to use it:
Under Utilities Tab, hit the MAXScript button
then push run script, locate CondenseMaterialIDs.mcr and hit open.
Now in the Utilities drop down, choose Condense material ID's.

Here you may choose to
A:
condense it from the material name i use a script i found on Scriptspot called "OS3D_SetMaterialName_v01.ms" i cant seem to locate it again but it sets all material names to the Image names.

B:
Condense by the diffuse texture name eg Image1.jpg

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Wire Colour Tools is a simple script for setting random wire colours to all of the objects in the scene. Anyone who does allot of post work either in PS or a compositing package should find this script useful. Being able to adjust any element or of your project in post by the object enables you to get the most of your image, rendering Wire Colour passes is very simple and inexpensive from render time point of view.

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- v0.1 functions: Spritey takes a cell-spaced spritesheet and uses the texture space to create UV coordinate animation based upon your specified cell numbers.

- Example: 4 rows of 6 columns of sprite images on 1 texture/material makes 24 frames of animation. 32 rows of 32 columns of sprite images on 1 texture/material makes 1024 frames of animation.(After the animation is created, you can manipulate the frames, animation, fps, etc, for playback as you see fit.)

- Why make Spritey ?
Well, IFLs are awesome & cell-based-sprite-sheets are awesome.

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Pull Down it! is a brand new dynamics solver which allows for the creation of fractures as well as massive rigid bodies simulation. By using its technology digital artist are able to simulate fast and easily scenes made up of thousands of objects and collapse buildings, bridges or any kind of brittle material.

FEATURES
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* Fast, accurrate rigid bodies solver.

* Fracture capabilities.

* Animation friendly.

* 32 and 64 bits version.

My first script here.

ATiles is scripted 3ds Max plug-in for quick creation of paving surfaces, brick walls, roof tiles, fences and other repeatable objects for architectural visualizations.

Knob is a scripted geometry primitive (simpleObject plugin) with predefined low-res topology
optimized for smoothing via TurboSmooth or MeshSmooth modifiers.

If you want to select every 2nd or 3rd or 4th, etc edges, just select the first edge, skip the desired number of edges and select the second edge, then execute the script.

If you want to see the time that script needs to make a selection, just start MAXScript Listener.

Instalation: Drag 'n drop two mzp files in 3ds max, then go to Customize - Customize User Interface. Under "miauu" category you can find "Gap Loop" and "Gap Ring" scripts.

On the video below the script works 3 times slower, because of Camtasia and my old, single core PC.

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These short cuts are really collection of very simple Macro scripts. Like my Turn Viewport Maps On/Off this one has had some serious staying power with artists to date it has to be one of my most used scripts. All of the macros are designed to manipulate V-Ray materials globally throughout the scene, very quickly and efficiently. Each macro effects every V-Ray material in the scene. They are very handy in a number of situations, for example when you get a file from a junior that has the glossy sub divs on every material sky high.

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A tool for quick creation of simple furniture series

Hi,

This is my first Script here at Scriptspot, I did it quite a while ago. TP MasterDynamic Control has pretty much the same function as the MasterDynamic Controls in TP itself. The Script makes it possible to change parameters outside of TP.

You can modify several TP systems in one scene. The script will either search for a System or will take the selected TP system on opening the script.

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Everyone's favorite plugin resource site - maxplugins.de is celebrating their 10th anniversary today! A huge thanks to David Baker who not only keeps maxplugins.de updated but maintains the sourcecode of many free plugins for each new version of 3ds Max!

Read David's anniversary post here: http://www.maxplugins.de/maxnews.php#id4705