Users of Silaghi’s older TopoRelax plugin, which does a similar job, can upgrade to Relax Pro at a discount.Ĭontrast Pro: sharpen low-quality 3D scans or low-resolution simulation caches Smoothing is resolution-independent, and can be controlled by any selection type or by vertex colours. Like the Relax modifier itself, it smooths the surface of a mesh, but unlike the native version, it preserves the mesh’s overall volume.Īs a result, it can be used to soften creases in retopologised sculpts or remove surface noise from 3D scans without risking the result looking like melted wax. Preserving surface detail is also the name of the game for Relax Pro, the third of the plugins to improve upon a native 3ds Max modifier. Relax Pro: smooth meshes without losing volume or too much surface detail Similarly, Push Pro is a more intelligent version of 3ds Max’s Push modifier, shifting the vertices of a mesh inwards or outwards: for example, to generate thinner or fatter variants of a character.Īgain, it generates fewer self-intersections than its native counterpart, even at quite extreme settings, and does a much better job of preserving surface detail. Push Pro: create thinner or fatter variants of your characters The plugin also provides new options for chamfering, filleting and bevelling the edge of the shell. Like its namesake, it converts the surface of a mesh into a solid shell – for example, when thickening that surface for 3D printing – but is intended to generate fewer self-intersections. Shell Pro is an improved take on 3ds Max’s native Shell modifier. Shell Pro: generate geometry shells with fewer self-intersections Updated 18 March 2021: A fifth plugin, Path Deform Pro, provides an advanced alternative to Path Deform.

Three – Push Pro, Relax Pro and Shell Pro – are more advanced versions of native 3ds Max modifiers, while Sharpen Pro is an automated tool for enhancing detail in sculpts and 3D scans.

Tools developer Marius Silaghi seems to have had a particularly good holiday break, having now released no fewer than four five really handy-looking new 3ds Max modelling plugins since Christmas. Scroll down for news of the new Path Deform Pro plugin.

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