Need an entire asteroid field created in minutes? This script has created 10,000 and can create up to 1,000,000 unique, skinned, rigged, animated, uvw mapped and textured asteroid objects in a single run.
Using the in-viewport, rotatable preview created by the script, adjustable parameters allow you to create a seed by which your asteroids will be modeled. Material presets are automatically created and changing the diffuse texture/displacement maps are as simple as drag/drop your own images into the image directory.
Maxscript confirmed compatible with these 3ds max versions: 2011, 2012 and 2013 32bit and 64bit. To use this utility, you can access it from the 3ds max "MAXScript Menu" under the "Run" command, launching it from wherever you have unzipped it.
Have a look at the product Here and have a wonderful day. :)
What's included:
To aid in quickly swapping maps, I've written and included 2 standalone executables, one for the bulk renaming of any file type and the other for bulk resizing of supported image types. Version 2 of the latter will see bulk image format conversions to easily generate images in the .tga format that this script requires. That tool will be free so be sure to check back often.
Changes this version:
support for multiple 3ds Max versions
more control of geometry creation
more refined preview system
integrated FBX export of individual asteroids and FBX export of the animation scene
backup and automatic .max scene file saving
thumbnail renders generated with each FBX asteroid export
ability to auto-render on update
more refined help & support system
ability to quickly swap textures great if you want to use this tool as a rock generator as well
much, much more...