Rendering for 3ds Max

Color Edge is a procedural texture map for 3ds Max that creates colour gradients along the visible edges of an object. Define edge visibility with built-in Edit Mesh tools, then set near and far edge colours to build the gradient.

BakeRadiosity is a 3ds Max plugin that converts an Adaptive Subdivision result into a new mesh object and bakes the lighting calculation onto its vertices, so the GI effect carries into real-time viewing.

Chaos Corona 9 is an (un)biased photorealistic renderer for 3ds Max from Chaos Czech, focused on ease of use. This release adds Procedural Clouds, Corona Pattern geometry tiling, and out-of-core rendering for Corona Bitmaps.

Camera Resolution Mod is a modifier for 3ds Max, created by BodyulCG, that lets you set the render resolution for each camera individually. It supports 3ds Max versions from 2010 through 2024.

The KeyShot Plugin for Autodesk® 3ds Max® renders, updates, and exports 3ds Max geometry to KeyShot, with changes maintained through Luxion's Live Linking technology so views, materials, textures, and animations carry over.

Light Painter is a Blender add-on that flips light placement around: instead of positioning lamps by hand, you paint where you want light to fall and it adds and places the light for you.

Muster 9 is Virtual Vertex's render farm management system, integrating with 3ds Max for film production, game development, and visual effects. It automates resource monitoring, recovers from faults, and assigns rendering tasks across hosts on the fly.

Render Node Manager is a network tool for 3ds Max that remotely starts, restarts, and stops distributed rendering on selected nodes — VRaySpawner, Corona DrServer, or Octane Daemon — and monitors each node's status.

AvizStudioTools - A2Dimage is a scripted 3ds Max plug-in for placing simple 2D images with an alpha channel into a scene. On render it automatically generates shadows from the image's alpha channel.

Prism is a render pass manager for 3ds Max that simplifies creating and managing render passes. Its interface lets you build an unlimited number of passes within a single output file, with settings available for each pass.

Render Tools is a Blender add-on for generating ID render passes and mask passes of selected objects. It adds random ID colors to a scene and renders individual objects with transparency for compositing.

Vertex Color Tools is a 3ds Max script by IllusionBug that gathers vertex color creation functions under one rollout, covering lighting, floor and environment setup, geometry selection, radiosity rendering, and vertex color assignment and cleanup.

MPManager (Matte Pass Manager) is a 3ds Max script that creates matte passes by layers and works with xrefs. Written by colinsenner, it's listed here as free and supports 3ds Max 2008 and later.

One Click Albedo for Corona render and V-ray is a 3ds Max script that automatically adjusts material albedo, reducing the diffuse level on materials that are too bright and raising the brightness of ones that are too dark.

Auto Light is a 3ds Max script for quickly adding and placing lights in a scene using automatic tools. It suits interior lighting, architecture, and other complex lighting, with support for Vray and Corona lights.

Corona Quick Setup is a free 3ds Max script that simplifies Corona's render settings. It condenses 3ds Max's default Render Setup dialog down to the most commonly used parameters so ordinary users can set up scenes faster.

Monster Matte is a utility for 3ds Max by LoneRobot that lets you browse for rendered backgrounds and quickly configure them as a mental ray matte material, ready to assign to background objects and render.

rdg::graphPaper is a procedural graph paper texture for 3ds Max. It builds its tiling and line management from horizontal and vertical Gradient Ramps, with colors defined by the top mix or output map.

Light Excluder is a 3ds Max script for including or excluding objects from lights. Select the lights and the object you want to include or exclude, then press a button to apply the change.

maxCornellMaker is a script for 3ds Max that recreates the famous Cornell Box. It reconstructs the scene using the original measurement data published by Cornell University, reproducing a well-known rendering benchmark rather than an approximation.

Tile Renderer is a MaxScript for 3ds Max that renders image sequences to a tiles bitmap. Developed by Chuggnut, it's mainly used for producing fonts in games from a sequence of rendered images.

Corona Tone Mapping Pipeline Wrapper is a MaxScript for 3ds Max that simplifies working with Corona Renderer 8's tone mapping, which the author notes is not easy to handle directly in MaxScript.

ECamera2Batch is a MaxScript tool for 3ds Max that creates batch render views from selected cameras, parsing camera names for width, height, and frame parameters to apply automatically to render settings.

fr Defaults fix is a startup script for 3ds Max that changes how finalRender treats new objects. It ensures objects are created with send/receive GI and receive caustics turned on rather than GI disabled.