3ds Max Plugins

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.

A next-generation particle and dynamics system for advanced simulations in 3ds Max.

Book Rigger is a 3ds Max script that builds a complete page-turn rig for any page count in one click, with interactive controls for flipping, landing, and shuffling pages.

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.

Craft Director Studio is an animation plug-in for 3ds Max that lets you hook up to a model and drive vehicles and aircraft through 3D environments, adjusting variables like suspension and adding camera effects.

Bullet Time is an AI-driven effect plugin for After Effects and Premiere Pro from Blace Plugins. It runs in CPU mode on any supported system or with hardware acceleration on qualifying GPUs.

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.

Turnaround Camera is a Blender add-on that sets up a camera rotation around a selected object. Once part of Blender's 4.1 bundled add-ons, it now ships as a standalone extension with limited support.

AutoCam is an intuitive camera animation system for Blender that records movement in real time, extracts editable paths, and builds camera rigs. Built for artists, it simplifies cinematic camera work without interrupting the creative flow.

Randomizer is a script for After Effects that assigns random values within a certain range to the transform properties of the selected layers, with version 3.3 adding support for Separate Dimensions on position.

PhysX Painter is a 3ds Max plugin for populating scenes with assets using a brush, placing them automatically through rigid body simulation. Built for architecture, game cinematics and commercials, it replaces hand placement and slower MassFX setups.

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.

Helix creates helix paths in After Effects using easy-to-use controls similar to Cinema 4D's helix tool. It adds subdivisions with smooth tangents, camera culling and a set of additional easy-access controls.

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.

TurboSplines is a 3ds Max script for creating multiple spline wrapping animations, also known as path deform animations. It automatically assigns Path Deform modifiers to preset or custom meshes, controlled from a single interface.

mbFracture is a macroscript for 3ds Max that automatically breaks a mesh object into volumetric pieces, with an option for crack width. Created by Martin Breidt, it is listed at version 0.1 alpha.

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.