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This is an assortment of operators for ParticleFlow:

Stop– particles stop completely as soon as they enter the event. The operator has check boxes for Position and Rotation.
Stop Gradually– allows you to stop particles gradually. You can set the time at which particles should begin slowing down, as well as the time at which they should come to a complete halt.
Camera IMBlur– this operator is used when rendering a particle system with motion blur as viewed from an animated camera. It corrects a problem in which Image Motion Blur doesn’t take camera motion into account when rendering a particle system.
Camera Culling Operator– can reduce the geometry load in the viewports and/or at render time by filtering out all particles not visible to the camera.
Copy Out Test– a simplified version of the Spawn test that you can use to reduce overhead in the particle system when you simply want to duplicated particles without using other Spawn settings.
Display Script Operator– a diagnostic tool that lets you display viewport data associated with each particle.
Simple Mix– a videopost filter.

Hair is a particle system used to simulate hair. It was mainly aimed at doing long head hair but can also be used for short body hair. Since it is a particle system most particles space warps will work with it.

This is an update to the basic Max Particle System. It adds a few more particle types, a few more emitter shapes, a particle position dump, and stream velocity and motion.

MaxTrax is a mixture of procedural object and particle system for creating tyre tracks, skid marks, or anything else you need to create trails for. It consists of two types of object: MTrack uses particles to create the trails and can be influenced by particle spacewarps, and GTrack, which creates the trails using geometry and can be collapsed to a mesh.

SPP consists of two particle systems (Halo and Phasor) and one spacewarp (Vertex Lock). Halo creates a system of particles which rotate in a generally circular path about an axis, Phasor creates a system of particles which flow from one end of the icon to the other in a wavelike path, and Vortex Lock is a particle motion controller which ‘grabs’ particles, spins them into a whirling vortex, then locks them into a stable rotation path.

SimCloth is a simple cloth plugin for Max capable of simulating different kinds of fabrics, as well as rigid bodies. SimCloth supports full collision and self-collision detection and response.

SimCloth is also OpenSource, and the source code is available here.

This is a rewrite of Grants old Translucency fake script as a plugin – so many many times faster. It works on vertex colours, you can either paint them or use the assign vertex colours utility.

This tool colours polygons by 3, 4 or 5+ verts/edges. This makes it easy to see triangles, quads, and 5+ sided polygons for cleaning up models. It also has a numeric feedback as tiny triangles may be missed at first glance.

This is a modifier that converts a map to vertex colours (or modifies any channel). It also has options to assign a vertex selection by the maps values.

A modifier that blurs the vertex colours (or any mapping channel). This is conceptually much like the blur routine in the Vertex Paint modifier, but as a modifier.

The Max 2009 version can convert a stack vertex selection to vertex colours (allowing it to be used as a mask in a material etc.).

This is like a renderable spline but with the option to use a curve to define shape. It has a bunch of other options like mapping style, grow options, and a secondary spline shape which can be blended to at a certain point on the spline with a soft-width setting.

A modifier that sets an entire objects soft selection value to the maximum found on the object – ie. if one vertex is 0.5 selected, the entire object will be set to 0.5. Useful for controlling selection over an entire object by a soft volume select.

A modifier that handles self-intersecting splines by breaking them up, or by lifting one segment over the other.

A spline modifier that creates vertices with a given distance and supports segmentation of splines.

A modifier for meshes which generates a stick for each visible edge, and a ball for each vertex.

This plugin is for creating 4-wheel vehicle animation in Max. It supports key-driven animation and real-time driving. The plugin consists of two parts: the MadCar Object (the vehicle dummy) and the MadCar Controller (for linking scene objects to the car dummy).

EASYnat is a plant growth simulator capable of reproducing at a botanically coherent level, growth and seasonal changes among more than 500 plants from 5 continents.

EASYnat enables architects to rapidly visualize and with realism the evolution of a landscaping project. It also cuts production costs and guarantees an investment return, thus providing the architect with a powerful tool able to efficiently respond to the competition.

Created from AMAP technology that was developed by the CIRAD, EASYnat uses both computer science and botany to achieve its end. Plants are calculated from a virtual seed containing an expression of their genetic information. EASYnat can therefore rapidly and instantaneously model botanically coherent plants that are photo-realistic.

This fully functional free version comes with 4 plants (chestnut tree, aleppo pine, flower and oleander). Purchasing just one seed will give you access to the full version of EASYnat 2.5 including updates.

An advanced version of the standard Max text shape primitive. It has the ability to include dynamic numbers that changes over time, within the text body.

This plugin is needed if you want to use mental ray geometry shaders in Max.

Based on Thomas Luft’s Ivy Generator, this plugin lets you grow ivy on any model scene. The growth of the ivy can be animated, and it has a load of settings to help you try and keep your ivy under control.

Used to import Digital Elevation Maps into Max. It supports USGS DEM, VistaPro DEM and GTOPO30 files. It creates an elevation object which allows you to define the detailing. You can also set materials depending on the elevation.

A plugin that generates moebius tapes for you.

A helper object that allows you to measure the light color at any point in your scene.

Generates a mesh that looks like the workstation vendors logo.

FrameInfo is a render effect primarily written as a preview aid which after your frame is rendered writes data to the image. You can use it to add user-defined data such as a timestamp or render time, or to render the safe frame or aspect indicators onto your image.

This is a modified multipass motion blur. It has the same settings as the built in one, with some extra options for the blending mode.

This effect is useful for tuning brightness, contrast and gamma in the RGB channels.

Allows you to modify color and alpha-channel of your scene depending on depth (Z- buffer). It can be used to imitate the standard fog/mist (it works considerably faster than the usual effect), and can also be applied to specific objects.

Useful for correcting the G-channels of lots of objects when rendering large scenes with stand-in geometry or billboards.

A render effect for creating a starry sky. Includes the possibility to assign stars Object / Material ID’s, motion blur and other effects such as Hyperspace.

This render effect allows you to change the Object ID’s and Material Effect ID’s after rendering, making them animatable.

This effect is intended for blurring down shiny surfaces, including transparent and reflective surfaces.

Allows you to apply effects such as Glow and Highlight to objects behind other transparent objects. Uses Object ID or Material Effect ID to apply the effect.

Generates trails behind moving objects, similar to the GhostTrails plugin.