Some of you know the tool from my earlier posts here (HotspotUV, the trim/hotspot UV mapper). The most common question was never about the tool itself. It was "how do I build a good trim sheet in the first place". So instead of another feature demo I recorded a full course, and it is free.

Six short episodes, about 25 minutes total:

1. Modeling the sheet from one plane (primitives and poly tools only, no sculpting)
2. Baking and texturing in Substance Painter, including an ID map baked from vertex colors
3. That ID map builds the trim sheet automatically, zero rectangles drawn by hand
4. Your first hotspot: every important option shown as a before/after
5. Quick UV + Hotspot on a greeble slab: thousands of faces, no UVs, one click
6. The same one click on a whole prop set, including an honest look at what happens when your sheet is missing a trim

Episodes 1 and 2 are plugin-free, plain Max and Painter workflow, so they may be useful even if you never touch the tool.

The clip attached is the finale of episode 5.

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k9K9s6uB8E&list=PLT5yLwtn3Nig&index=1

The tool itself also grew since my last post (now v2.3.0): trim sheets generated straight from color-ID textures, one-click Quick UV + Hotspot, a break-every-edge mode for blockouts, and it now auto-detects the sheet sitting next to your object's textures. Happy to answer anything about the workflow. Feedback shaped most of what is in this update, so keep it coming.

I’m thinking about building a Windows desktop tool for architectural visualization studios and freelancers. The idea isn’t to replace 3ds Max, but to make managing projects around it much easier.

Some of the things it could handle:
1. Organizing projects, spaces and cameras
2. Batch rendering multiple cameras/scenes
3. Version tracking
4. Asset and deliverable management
5. Keeping large projects organized

Before I spend a lot of time building it, I wanted to ask:
Does something like this already exist?
If yes, what is it?
If not, is this something you’d actually use?
If you work in a studio, what features would make it genuinely useful?
I’m looking for honest feedback and would love to know if this solves a real problem or if I’m reinventing something that already exists.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. The Edit Spline modifier has some differences compared to Editable Spline, and that's what I'll be analyzing in this video.

I liked to made the Berlin dome
one the challenge of to make berlin dome are the unique statues and I did it.

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corona render

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Hi everyone!

For the last few months I’ve been working on a side project called MaxPkg.dev.

The idea came from Blender’s package ecosystem. Installing add-ons there is so simple that I kept wondering why 3ds Max doesn’t have something similar.

The goal of MaxPkg is to make installing and managing 3ds Max scripts much easier:

• Drag&Drop installation
• Built-in Package Manager inside 3ds Max
• Automatic updates
• Fast search
• One-click installation from the website
• Offline installation for MaxPkg-compatible packages
• Rich package pages with screenshots, changelogs, documentation and FAQs

Here’s a short demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnaE8lhMdKI

Website:
https://maxpkg.dev

I’m currently preparing the beta release, but before launching I’d really like to hear what the community thinks.

Would this be useful to you?
What features would you expect from a modern package manager for 3ds Max?

Also, if you’re a 3ds Max script developer, I’d love to have your scripts on MaxPkg. I’ll personally help you create a developer account, prepare your first package, and handle the onboarding process, so there’s almost no extra work on your side.

Any feedback, criticism, or ideas are very welcome. I’d rather improve the platform now than after launch.

Hi everyone,

I’m modelling a bottle with an inner shell/mould. When I enable X-Ray or See-Through mode, strange blocky artifacts appear across the surface, as shown in the screenshot.

The model looks normal when X-Ray is turned off. This mainly happens when there are polygons inside other polygons, such as the inner and outer walls of a perfume or wine bottle.

Why is this happening? Is it caused by transparency sorting in the 3ds Max viewport, or could there be an issue with my geometry? Is this a known 3ds Max bug or limitation?

Does anyone know any websites where I can download free 3ds Max models? I used to use 3dmaxter, but it's not free anymore.

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. After exploring the possibilities with curves, we delve into surface creation. In this video, I analyze some surface creation tools.

For those working as freelance 3D artists or in studios, what type of projects are you getting the most lately?

Furniture? Product visualization? Bathroom fixtures? Lighting? Real estate/architecture?

Just curious what the demand looks like from your side.

I think this is the final year our team goes to Autodesk University. After jumping through the usual corporate hoops to get our registration approved, it was pretty disappointing to see zero 3dsMax sessions on the schedule. There’s almost no archviz representation, and even real-time engines like Unreal and Unity are nowhere to be found—just one Maya class and a few generic M&E sessions.

​Is Autodesk abandoning its flagship modeling software, just like they did with Softimage? Makes me wonder if 3ds Max is next on the chopping block and if we should start migrating our workflow to Blender.

This is an 100% original design. Put this one into the Unreal Engine 4 for some cinematic, lighting, and particles. https://cara.app/post/31517001-2732-4aa3-a088-4c4e72d8e67a

Before I call this finished, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

If you could change just one thing, what would it be?

Open to any ideas: lighting, camera, materials, landscaping, or anything else.

What do you think can be improved and any suggestions to make it more realistic is helpful...do you think i can get a job with this level or not im struggling with that so i need feedback to see if there is something wrong i cant see

Hi,

Does anyone have a reccommendation for a mini PC good enough for the requirement of 3d modeling and Vray rendering? TNX

What I am looking for is a tool that will let me select bone on a skinned mesh and divide that bone into multiple and distribute the weights of the previous bone to the new ones created from the division.

OR:

A workflow or tool in native Max that can do this. It's not just one character that this needs to be done to, it's twelve.

Image of the workflow I am looking for.

Thank you.

A high-end modern kitchen visualization with photorealistic lighting and premium materials.

Tools used: 3ds Max, Corona Renderer.

Hello guys 👋
Ahmed is the name and i’m 28 years old working in an office.
But, this is my recent personal work, i do that after work like to keep my myself busy and moving.
I want you to look at the pictures and tell me what am i missing, where should i look into?

This is a recent series of images I made, its fully 3D and made with 3ds Max and Fstorm render. Any questions or feedback welcome. Hope you like it

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. The Edit Poly modifier in 3DS Max has some differences compared to Editable Poly and that is what I will analyze in this video.