Instalation:

Usage:

Note: “Pin” drop object/s down by Z axis on suface you pick, so check you Pivot before and be sure object/s its over the surface you want to pin to.

This script bake animation of all selected shapes to simple key-framed spline animation. Can be usefull then you do complex animation with lots of shapes with dinamic simulation, for example – ropes.

Instalation:

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Used Software: 3ds max + VRay,  Fusion

This little script will help you to select vertices with normals looking outside the mesh.

Instalation:
1. Download script
2. Drag and drop it to 3dsmax viewport
3. open Customize – Customize user interface – Menu
4. Find Category “Shiva Tools” and tool “Select Outsided Vertex”
5. Then drag it there you want, for example into quadmenu – meshtools

Script not always correctly works. But.. its works for me. May be later i`ll check it all.

Instalation:

1. Download the script
2. Unrar it to 3dsmax root dir and start 3dsmax
3. open Customize – Customize user interface – Menu
4. Find Category “Shiva Tools” and tool “CroosPoint”
5. Then drag it there you want, for example into Menu – Animation

Update:
1.01 – now script work with Biped to.

Here an illustration of work:

This script based on FRACTURE VORONOI script by GARP

1) Download script

2) Run it via menu “MaxScript – Run Script” or DragAndDrop it on 3dsmax viewport

3) Choose “Pick container Mesh” button and click on the mesh you want to become cells’ container. (Cells will be cut out of this object)

4) Choose “Select group of objects” and select objects you want to serve as a pointcloud(cell centers) inside the container mesh. You can use any geometry or particle systems. Note what particles with geomerty shapes will be understandable as group of geometry, not like a points. But if you will set a Vertex type shape in PFlow then particles will be correctly transfered to point cloud.

5) Choose “Do!” and wait.. (please dont use hi-res meshes if you don’t want to get a damn-long processing)
All used objects (Source object) will be hidden so you can back to them any time.

Cells will inherit colors (but not materials) from the source objects, so you can easily select part of cells from the same source by the color (Edit – select by – Color).

Feel free to e-mail me images you get with the help of my script. I`ll be happy if you find it useful, and certainly will post some of them here.

Images created with help of this script:

Sample of usage – object cracking for dynamic simulation. For dynamic was used PhysX plugins from Nvidia.

This script will help you to clean polygonal meshes from the useless vertex, for example after the Boolean operations. Script will find vertexes with 2 egdes only and, depending from angle between edges (treshhold you can control), will clean it. So you can leave a corner vertexes and clean vertexes on straight lines.

1) Download script
2) Run it via menu “MaxScript – Run Script” or DragAndDrop it on 3dsmax viewport
3) Choose “Customize – Customize user interface” and add script to Keyboard shotcut or in Menus, Toolbars or, like on image, in to the quad. You will find it in Category: Shiva Tools.

Note: script for 3dsmaxR5+

Simple explanation of script work and sample of usage:

This simple script will randomize wire color of selected objects.

Its can be usefull then you detach lot of geometry parts and they all have the same wire color and you have trouble to recognize there already detached parts.

1. Download script
2. Drag and drop it to 3dsmax viewport
3. open Customize – Customize user interface – Menu
4. Find Category “Shiva Tools” and tool “Random Wire Color”
5. Then drag it there you want, for example into main menu – tools

Note: script for 3dsmaxR5 and higher