Comicon Challenge 2010 - Armoury (scripts & shaders)

[KEDavidson]

thought it would be a good idea to gather a list of usefull scripts, shaders and whatnots in one place to help level the playing field. i'm pretty sure most of these can be found at Highend3D (registration required) but it's nice to have quick access to 'em.

SCRIPTS

Max
Wire Bundle creates a series of wires/tubes along a spline or from 1 object to another
WeldTexVerts lets you interactively weld texture vertices in the same way you would with editable polygons.
Retopo allows you to retopo directly in max.

Maya
Wire Jumbler similar to Wire Bundle max script,
X-Tools poly moddling/editing toolset
Pelting Tools tools to simplify UV-ing
Zen Tools set of multi-purpose tools for poly's, Uv's, rigging and more! (requires Bonus tools- link on same page)
Extend Duplicate duplicates objects along a curve/surface
oaRelaxVerts relaxes verts while keeping shape
P3D solidify similar to maxs shell modifier
Local Tool Orientation changes to Transform orientation to selected object, point, etc

XSI

ZBrush
Precision Texturing
Subtool Plugin plugin to manage subtools
Box Modler like Zsphere's, but boxes
ZBrush Plugins Download center Zapplink, Transpose Master and more all on one page!
ZBrush Alpha Library
ZBRush Matcap Library

Mudbox

Modo
VertexMonkey resource center for all your modo needs.


SHADERS

Max
Camouflage Textures, ie seamless

Maya
Brake Disk Anisotropic Shader scratched metal shader
denfo-Surface-of-Ice ice shader

XSI
SkinSSS skin shader
Normal Map Control allows Red and Green channels to be flipped indavidually

ZBrush
Realistic Materials small collection of, well, realistic materials
Polaris Alpha pack set of 83 alpha maps from Polaris

Mudbox


Modo


X-TRA'S

Slipgatecentral's DWIV video tutorials
X Normal
Marmoset Toolbag
Polycount Marmoset thread for all things releated to the toolbag
Zbrush and Mudbox Stamp thread our very own stamp thread (this was a hard find).
Mudbox - use geometry as a brush video tutorial on using complex geometry as brushes
Luminxo Puupetshop for Max


GAME ENGINES and TUTORIALS

General multiple engines/tuts/etc

Devmaster
fpsbanana
ModDb

the following is stolen directly from polycount
Texturing Tuts by Daniel Vijoi (Lead Texture Artist of AMC Studio) Download a PDF from the share section at AMC Studio
Creating a Next-Gen Environment Textures
Creating a Next-Gen Enrionemtn Setting- Creating an Old Farm

Hard Surface Texture Painting by Stefan Morrell
Modeling for Next-Gen Game (Useful notes on normal mapping)by João Campos Costa
Creating a Current-Gen Dumpster by Kaleb Aylsworth
Also Gears2 Environment Art thread by Kevin Johnstone beggars belief as well as having a some step by step's a few pages in.


Unreal

waylon-art.com
UDN
Epic Games Forums

Source

Valve Developer Wiki
Interlopers.net
EditLife.net
Steam Tools Forum

CryEngine 2

Crymod

[Smooth_Criminal]

Great idea.. it will sure be helpful. I will see if I can find some good links.

[fantasymaster]

YEAH! I will use the Wire Jumbler for my Cyborg.

[seven]

modo

vertexmonkey.com

[KEDavidson]

Added Modo to the main lists, if there's any other big software i missed please let me know

[KewopDecam]

can you add like a sentence or two that explains what each script does?

[KEDavidson]

yeah that might help, done:think:

[kageko]

just found this:
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downlo...-Ice-1297.html

pretty sweet iceshader, for those of u thinking of working with ice-demons or norms

[seven]

haha, that's cool that you added modo to the list... but you should put up www.vertexmonkey.com too... tons of modo scripts over there. My favorites are seneca's perfect circle and mesh clean up.

[KEDavidson]

hey Seven, yeah i wasn't really sure if you meant Modo in general or not so i just added it to the list, i think in general i'm trying to put together a list of the cooler and usefull stuff rather than just a link to a database. this way paople can come here, find something usefull (hopefully) and then if they explore a site from one of these links they can come back here and make some suggestions:thumb:

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wow, i totally should have looked more closely at that link before i replied, *added:hit:

updated the Zbrush scripts and shaders, i'm a mudbox user though so if there are better/more recent versions feel free to post em

[JakeLV426]

Thanks !! Great tools Scudz!

[KEDavidson]

you're welcome Jake!!

added more ZBrush stuff, and a couple XSI shaders, if any XSI users could help me out here, there doesn't seem to be very much at all for XSI and even on the officail site most of the scripts i could find were simply replicating Max and Maya functionality

[seven]

If that's the case then here's a link to all of seneca's scripts... I don't think there's one that's not useful. http://www.indigosm.com/modoscripts.htm

[Eyael]

Thank you a lot for this thread!
I think it will help me a lot!

[KEDavidson]

If that's the case then here's a link to all of seneca's scripts... I don't think there's one that's not useful. http://www.indigosm.com/modoscripts.htm

hey seven, i had to edit my first reply to you, i totally wasn't paying attention when i checked vertexmonkey the first time and thought it was a dev site or something. having looked at it properly you're right, there's so much cool stuff there i'm tempted to switch software.

[seven]

hey seven, i had to edit my first reply to you, i totally wasn't paying attention when i checked vertexmonkey the first time and thought it was a dev site or something. having looked at it properly you're right, there's so much cool stuff there i'm tempted to switch software.

Right on. It's not a bad piece of modeling software. The new version 401 is suppose to be released soon. It looks like it'll be pretty slick. :think:

[KEDavidson]

just had to mention this, the Maya Wire tool, calls you a fool for an error message

[slipgatecentral]

just had to mention this, the Maya Wire tool, calls you a fool for an error message

it's weird, works for me. both in 8.5 and 2009

but another potentially priceless script for duplicating objects along path, doesnt work . http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downlo...long-3657.html

any ideas how to fix it?

[KEDavidson]

i'm using maya '08, but i think it may just be because i was trying to create wires along a single curve rather than 2 objects, i'll try the duplicating objects script when i get home, whats the actual error you get?

[slipgatecentral]

just had to run that script by using 'source script' in script editor, typing in command panel didnt work

anyway, i've found just what I needed, extended duplicate script for maya, absolutely must-have tool for creating various curve-based objects, like chains, complex tubes etc

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downlo...misc/3169.html

here's few examples:





btw, can anyone stick this thread to the top?