Vertex Color Tools

Objects in 3ds Max will typically need to have “clean” transforms.  It is quite easy to invalidate them via non-uniform scales or mirroring. I wrote a simple script to identify objects submitted to us by our vendor that are in need of correction.
The script checked for offset pivots, mirrored  objects, and non-uniformly scaled objects.
Here is […]

We discovered, after the majority of assets were authored, that we needed to convert our PC pattern maps to the technique we were using with NPC’s.  Pattern maps were used to customize the characters by replacing the pure RED, GREEN, or BLUE with a new color via the shader at runtime.
Rather than stick someone with […]

This was a quick script that I threw together to help with outsourcing.  I needed to be able to quickly check for an evaluate the delivered high resolution and low resolution bitmaps authored for the character assets.
To toggle between the large and small maps, the script looks at the materials and finds the bitmaps in […]

This post shows a simple script & shader that I wrote to workaround an issue and better visualize the results an artist would see with their asset further down the pipeline in game.  This was by no means an ideal solution and was only a bandaid.
(video)NOTE: The intended audience of the video was a group […]