floor generator for 3ds max 2018 free download

The first step was to select and isolate all the floor elements, convert them to editable polys, and break them into workable bits (Floor Generator can be a bit slow when building very large areas of parquet, so better to split your floor in separate splines one for each room for instance).Then, I selected all the outside edges of each of these elements and converted them into splines (Edit Edges? Create Shape From Selection? Tick linear).Make sure all splines are closed, otherwise Floor Generator will not be able to use the spline as guide. If you enclose a closed loop within your floor spline, as long as they are both part of the same spline, the script will understand that you want to blow a hole in your parquet, which is great if you have elements, such as concrete pillars (or tree trunks in the case of exterior wood decks), that must go through the floor.Because I didn’t want to settle on a POV until I had finished texturing the house, I decided to cover the entire floor area of the GH House with parquet. The only restriction is that the splines must be closed (which is logical if you think of it). They are made to be used with the plugin, they are very high quality, and you’re certain to be using them over and over again.A great thing about the Floor Generator is that it uses splines to define the area to be covered with parquet.

I couldn’t live without them.A side note – Good plank textures are notoriously hard to come by, so once you’ve dowloaded the free tools, do yourself a favour and buy some of CG-Source’s multi-texture maps.

Both written by Bercon, aka Jerry Ylilammi of fame that do the work for you, not just faster but better and with a flurry of extra options.Since these free tools came out, I’ve hardly used anything else, not only for my parquets but also for all sorts of stone or tiled floor materials. But this was a protracted process and it was only really workable when the floors had reasonably simple shapes (basically rectangles).Then came along with the 3ds Max script Floor Generator, and a plugin Multi Texture Map. Or they were detailed enough to be seen up close but did not cover large enough areas, showing repetitive patterns over a certain distance.Initially, I solved the dilemma by actually modeling my parquets and texturing individual planks, placed at random, instead of an entire floor. Either my texture maps were big enough to cover large expanses of floor without showing visible tiling but they would show some pixelization when zooming on individual floor planks.

Floor generator for 3ds max 2018 free download