The latest version of Ephere’s hair, fur and feather creation plugin for 3DS Max brings many new features, including: transplant grooms with single-button detaching, new hair LOD workflow, improved vegetation and instancing, surface comb rotation and bending control make styling fur faster and better, mirroring and brush-specific settings significantly improve brush-based workflow, push away from surface modifier keeps the hair out of any object to improve realism, procedural guide data generation, Alembic cache import for applying and layering baked hair animations, hair from particles, edit hair after propagation, etc.
Ornatrix is priced at $499, the update is free for those who purchased the software in the past 6 months. Discounts are available for those who own a previous license of Ornatrix for 3DS Max. A free demo version is available for download. Watch a new features video on Vimeo and read a detailed list of changes on Ephere’s website.
Interested in light of recent AD decisions..does anyone want to BUY a plugin for a RENTAL software?
I totally understand your concerns about buying plugins for a rental software but what options do you have when you want to stay within 3ds Max? Renting ALL the plugins you need? I think this makes it even worse. With buying plugins, you can reduce renting to the main software only (if you are not using tP).
You are “renting” Houdini Indie.
Good tool. But WHY I must to pay if 3d max very costly and fully useless in standart pacage.
In Houdini you have All this in ONE package without need to buy other tools.
Without plugins 3d max completely dead.
You are right, plugins for 3ds Max play an important role. AD wants to position Max as an archviz tool, therefore they do not add the VFX tools people want.
I miss something? 3dsmax from the very beginning has been all about plugins. This can be good and bad, but has been always like that. Not only for FX, but for any other industry you have a huge amount of plugins available. Cons? Obviously you need to buy it apart, but the good part is that you get developers focused in a specific tools. Today AD is the bad and Houdini is all love. I can understand some of the points, but for example Patrick is saying Houdini has everything in one package. I will agree out of the box is better, but can you discuss than if you want to do only hair Houdini is better than 3dsmax+Ornatrix5?? (I dont know, I dont do hair, but I can assume Ornatrix has a some people refinning his hair for a longer time than Houdini has it).
I know that 3ds Max has been all about plugins. As you said, it is better to have external (plugin) developers specialized in certain fields than AD who would possibly never catch up with the speed of development.
3ds Max has native Hair tools. Also Ornatrix isn’t the only 3rd party hair plugin for Max, there’s also Hairtrix.
You do realise that Hairtrix was the hybrid HairFX / Ornatrix plugin from Turbosquid released many years ago. It isn’t available anymore
I meant Hairfarm.
At least max has a gazilion plugins and scripts – try working in Maya. You quickly find that the built in tools are not enough for professional work (ie. fluids, Bitfrost ;)), but you have maybe 1% of the plugins available for 3ds Max :/ Autodesk really needs to shape up or lower the prices – remember that Houdini is unbelievably expensive so you get what you pay for :/
You can get Houdini Indie -which has almost everything – for $199 year, but limited to HD resolution and $100000 income generated.You can get even plugins like Redshift and Arnold. Yeah i get the irony but it is only 1 plugin if you want super faster renders. For Max you need a dozen probably.
Actually HD res for film/television and most professional work is not enough 🙁 I’m not talking about 4K but you want to be able to reframe in post, add camera shake, camera pans or zooms – it doesn’t cost that much in render time but really speeds things up in comp. Limiting yourself to HD hurts more than you think. We started off with Houdini Indie and switched to full after 6 months :/
1) Indie is rental only.
2) It is not revenue 100000 which is income + expense.
3) “has almost everything” WHatttt?
My comment was more about how ppl will feel about buying plugins with an implied perpetual license for a product that will only be available for rent. The analogy for me is buying a cool new stereo for a rented car.
Bad analogy. You can use your cool new stereo in almost any car. Or you can just sell it.
@Anonymous …true. I AM RENTING Indie, but for 30% of what my Max sub renewal cost, and I haven’t found the need for ANY plugins. What plugins that I needed for Max do I need for Houdini? Fluids? Nope.
I though you have a problem with a RENTAL software.
Anonymous… why remain anonymous?
Anyways, you can use the name you want.
I bet you understand the problem here but don’t want to accept you understand it.
Of course, the problem is renting, but as I said MANY MANY times, the problem is with companies that offer rental only solutions, they are hijacking your work/art, meaning you cannot access it without paying them.
Another thing is that Houdini is not as expensive, more or less the same that Maya or Max used to cost, the expensive part is the yearly upgrade but hey… you own the software, you don’t need to upgrade if you don’t want, and you can acquire a new license 3 or 4 years later, wich makes Houdini less expensive than Adesk rental software… sorry but rental only is problematic and unfair to the user, and if the prices are absurd it is worse, Adobe is rental only, but at least they offer the FULL collection for 60e/month (tax included)… it’s not super cheap, but it’s the full collection for 720e/year tax included, if you do a bit of 3d plus a bit of 2d plus a bit of layout work… well it pays by itself… it’s still bad but the danger is low because you easyli can afford 60e month for a lot of useful software, BTW the only thing retaining us in Adobe is InDesign, for everything else there is replacement in the market already and at a very good price.
Rental only is bad, they hijack your work, and that is not good at all and it is very dangerous for the future of any studio…
This Hair/fur plugin looks great
3ds max is a good 3d app, i’ve been using it since 1999.
for me, it’s just the management’s goal of going 100% rental and deciding that punishing people who want to remain on subs that i have an issue with.
Isn’t that just the point? If everyone is on a rental WHY would anyone develop these sort of fantastic plug-ins – AD could just appropriate the high-value appeal features as part of their next “release” leaving developers high and dry.
I really hope plugin developers start working for other platforms, Adesk platforms are pretty much dead with the current deal…