The latest version of BonesPro 4.6 is now ready for download and offers full support for 3ds Max 2013 and 3ds Max Design 2013 (each in 32 bit and 64 bit versions).

BonesPro for 3ds Max 2013 and 3ds Max Design 2013 comes with effective code optimization and Unicode support. In addition the new function “Move Bones” offers the ability to change the skeleton and bone setup in reference pose while the character is already being skinned with BonesPro.

The BonesPro plug-in and associated training materials are now available at http://www.bonespro.com
If you are a veteran user of BonesPro you can now take the next step and improve your animation workflow even more. If BonesPro is new to you, check out the tutorials and free trial to see how BonesPro can increase your productivity.

About 3d-io
3d-io games & video production GmbH is specialized company for high-end software development, modeling, animation, rendering, CG effects and 3D industrial design. 3d-io GmbH, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, has an established strong presence in game development, design & video production, digital content creation as well as in graphics and animation. We are dedicated to provide easy-to-use software products accompanied by dedicated support team, experienced programmers and top notch 3D artists. BonesPro, the most popular skinning plugin für Autodesk 3ds Max, is a great productivity tool created in 1994 by Digimation Inc.

Contact: www.3d-io.com

The Unwrella unwrapping plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 is available for sale and as a freely downloadable trial version on its homepage: http://www.unwrella.com

Unwrella was developed for the high demands of graphics designers in real world production environments and provides a fast, simple and reliable unwrapping solution. It is the first tool of this kind on the market, allowing the unwrapping of 3d models to be done with a single mouse click while simultaneously providing optimal results that combine the minimized texture stretching of automated unwrapping techniques with the efficient space utilization and chunk distribution of UV space that is achieved with manual pelt wrapping methods. This allows users to quickly solve complex tasks like the creation of seamless 3d models, more accurate lightmaps and productive subsequent processing of the UV maps in other 3d applications like ZBrush or Mudbox.

Unwrella is compatible with:

• 3D Studio MAX 2013 32 bit
• 3D Studio MAX 2013 64 bit
• 3D Studio MAX 2012 32 bit
• 3D Studio MAX 2012 64 bit
• 3D Studio MAX 2011 32 bit
• 3D Studio MAX 2011 64 bit
• 3D Studio MAX 2010 32 bit
• 3D Studio MAX 2010 64 bit

Requirements:

• Microsoft .NET 2.0 installed
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0c (August 2008)

About 3d-io

3d-io games & video production GmbH is specialised company for high-end software development, modeling, animation, rendering, CG effects and 3D industrial design. 3d-io GmbH, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, has an established strong presence in game development, design & video production, digital content creation as well as in graphics and animation. We are dedicated to provide easy-to-use software products accompanied by dedicated support team, experienced programmers and top notch 3D artists. Our latest product on the gaming market was nominated for the German Game Developers Award 2008 in best graphics category, and CG products are used by many famous Game and Design Studios worldwide.

Contact:

www.3d-plugin.com / info@3d-plugin.com

With version 1.20 UV-Packer now offers full support for 3ds Max 2013 and 3ds Max Design 2013 (each in 32 bit and 64 bit versions).

UV-Packer automatically redistributes all UV charts in a UV map for optimal fit. Do you often find yourself spending a lot of time to rearrange charts generated by pelting or do you need to modify UV maps because the proportions of the UV space or the size of the required padding have changed?

UV-Packer does it with a single click of a button.
It can also rescale the separate UV charts depending on the mesh surface area to even out the pixel distribution across different parts of the mesh.

UV-Packer for Autodesk 3ds Max is now available for sale and as a freely downloadable trial version on its homepage: http://packer.3d-plugin.com/download-order/

UV-Packer 1.20 is compatible with:

• 3ds MAX 2013 32 bit
• 3ds MAX 2013 64 bit
• 3ds MAX 2012 32 bit
• 3ds MAX 2012 64 bit
• 3ds MAX 2011 32 bit
• 3ds MAX 2011 64 bit
• 3ds MAX 2010 32 bit
• 3ds MAX 2010 64 bit
• 3ds MAX 2009 32 bit
• 3ds MAX 2009 64 bit
• 3ds MAX 2008 32 bit
• 3ds MAX 2008 64 bit
• 3ds MAX 9 32 bit
• 3ds MAX 9 64 bit

Requirements

• Microsoft .NET 2.0 installed
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0c

About 3d-io

3d-io games & video production GmbH is specialized company for high-end software development, modeling, animation, rendering, CG effects and 3D industrial design. 3d-io GmbH, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, has an established strong presence in game development, design & video production, digital content creation as well as in graphics and animation. We are dedicated to provide easy-to-use software products accompanied by dedicated support team, experienced programmers and top notch 3D artists. Our latest product on the gaming market was nominated for the German Game Developers Award 2008 in best graphics category, and CG products are used by many famous Game and Design Studios worldwide.

Contact:

www.3d-plugin.com / info@3d-plugin.com

With version 4.51 BonesPro now offers full support for 3ds Max 2012 and 3ds Max Design 2012 (each in 32 bit and 64 bit versions).

List of changes and new features of BonesPro 4.51

• BonesPro now supports 3ds Max 2012 and 3ds Max Design 2012
• Incorrect MetaBone display in the Track View editor has been fixed.
• Corrected errors which occassionally caused disproportional slowdown of 3ds Max when realtime view of MetaBones was enabled.

The BonesPro plug-in and associated training materials are now available at http://www.bonespro.com

If you are a veteran user of BonesPro you can now take the next step and improve your animation workflow even more. If BonesPro is new to you, check out the tutorials and free trial to see how BonesPro can increase your productivity.

About 3d-io
3d-io games & video production GmbH is specialized company for high-end software development, modeling, animation, rendering, CG effects and 3D industrial design. 3d-io GmbH, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, has an established strong presence in game development, design & video production, digital content creation as well as in graphics and animation. We are dedicated to provide easy-to-use software products accompanied by dedicated support team, experienced programmers and top notch 3D artists.
Contact: www.3d-io.com

About Digimation Inc.
Digimation specializes in developing and delivering 3D solutions for the training and simulation industry including; Interactive Maintenance Trainers, Small Arms Trainers, Virtual Task Trainers, as well as Virtual Environments used in homeland security applications. The company’s service division produces photorealistic 3D parts used in maintenance trainers, OpenFlight 3D models used in simulations, and full 3D animation.
Contact: www.digimation.com

Following the numerous improvements and add-ons from the last releases, the 3d-io development team is proud to release a major update of BonesPro, the sophisticated skinning tool for Autodesk 3dsMax. BonesPro version 4.5 adds the production-proven fast and easy skin painting similar to ZBrush: artists can now paint weight adjustments in real-time and even smooth them out with the brush to achieve exact and elastic skin look & feel, just like using ZBrush / Mudbox.

Skin Painting and Skin Smoothing

BonesPro 4.5 introduces paint brushes for efficient skin weight painting. In addition to standard brush functions 3ds Max users are familiar with, BonesPro 4.5 brings Skin Smooth Brush, which smooths the skin, creating perfect folds, blending and equal surfaces with just using few mouse moves.

Performance Increase & History

Many core functions were improved in their calculation speed, making BonesPro faster than ever before. To make working with BonesPro more intuitive for artists the default 3ds Max undo system is now supported in addition to the original undo options from earlier versions.

Complete MAXScript interface overhaul

BonesPro 4.5 features a completely overhauled MAXScript interface, making the integration into a company production pipeline and the automated control of the skinning process easier to implement than before. Backwards compatibility for the old interface is included for already existing scripts.

List of changes and new features of BonesPro 4.50

• A new paint tool with smoothing mode allows artists to make quick local weight adjustments
• Completely new MAXScript interface for easier and more extensive third party access.
• 3ds Max default conform undo system added to the existing legacy workflow.
• MetaBones now have an optional real-time mode similar to ParaBones.
• Significant performance increases for the most often used actions in BonesPro.
• BonesPro now works natively with object types and no longer converts them internally. This improves performance with large modifier stacks and interoperability with other modifiers.
• Bone groups can now easily be turned into selection sets through a new option in the Bones rollout.
• Bones with non-orthogonal local coordinate systems can now be used like normal bones without causing distortions.
• Various minor fixes.

The BonesPro plug-in and associated training materials are available at http://www.bonespro.com

If you are a veteran user of BonesPro you can now take the next step and improve your animation workflow even more. If BonesPro is new to you, check out the tutorials and free trial to see how BonesPro can increase your productivity.

About 3d-io

3d-io games & video production GmbH is specialized company for high-end software development, modeling, animation, rendering, CG effects and 3D industrial design. 3d-io GmbH, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, has an established strong presence in game development, design & video production, digital content creation as well as in graphics and animation. We are dedicated to provide easy-to-use software products accompanied by dedicated support team, experienced programmers and top notch 3D artists.

Contact: www.3d-io.com

About Digimation Inc.

Digimation specializes in developing and delivering 3D solutions for the training and simulation industry including; Interactive Maintenance Trainers, Small Arms Trainers, Virtual Task Trainers, as well as Virtual Environments used in homeland security applications. The company’s service division produces photorealistic 3D parts used in maintenance trainers, OpenFlight 3D models used in simulations, and full 3D animation.

Contact: www.digimation.com

We invite all 3d artists, producers and designers to come to the 3DPOWERSTORE Ultimate Render Bash 2010, on 06. 12. 2010 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Igor Posavec, the software designer and Christian Kandler, the chief developer behind the the 3d-io Plugins, will present for the first time FLATIRON 1.6 features in combination with V-Ray and Nova RT Engine.

You can meet members of our team for discussion and receive a personal presentation of BonesPro, Flatiron and our other plug-ins at the same time. The 3d-io plug-in team will inform you about the latest 3d-plugin updates and demonstrates how to use them in the production workflow for full advantage.

The Presentation, organized by 3DPOWERSTORE, starts at 12:45h – see you there!
Visit the 3DPOWERSTORE Event 2010 Homepage and sign up:

Visit the 3d-plugin Homepage

We invite all 3d artists, producers and designers to come and visit our booth area at FMX 2010, from 04.05.2010 to 07.05.2010 in Stuttgart, Germany.
You can meet members of our team for discussion and receive a personal presentation of BonesPro, Flatiron and our other plug-ins. The 3d-io plug-in team will inform you about the latest 3d-plugin updates and demonstrates how to use them in the production workflow for full advantage.

In addition Igor Posavec and Christian Kandler will provide a 3ds Max Masterclass presentation about Visual Development and CG-Prototyping in game and video productions.

Our booth, organized by Weltenbauer, is directly next to the bar – you can’t miss it!
Visit the FMX2010 Homepage and sign up for an appointment:

Visit the 3d-plugin Homepage

List of changes and new features of BonesPro 4.20

• Added support for Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 and Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011.
• BonesPro now accepts shape objects as bones.
• Added support for various additional object types as bones (i.e. dummy helpers) and improved handling and accuracy of certain types like CAT muscles.
• Soft selection now supports custom falloff curves.
• Various minor fixes, including improved *.bpm file handling of CAT bones.

The BonesPro plug-in and associated training materials are available at http://www.bonespro.com

BonesPro 4.20 is compatible, both as 32bit and 64bit:

• 3ds Max 2011, 3ds Max Design 2011
• 3ds Max 2010, 3ds Max Design 2010
• 3ds Max 2009, 3ds Max Design 2009
• 3ds Max 2008
• 3ds Max 9

About 3d-io
3d-io games & video production GmbH is specialized company for high-end software development, modeling, animation, rendering, CG effects and 3D industrial design. 3d-io GmbH, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, has an established strong presence in game development, design & video production, digital content creation as well as in graphics and animation. We are dedicated to provide easy-to-use software products accompanied by dedicated support team, experienced programmers and top notch 3D artists. Contact: http://www.3d-io.com

About Digimation Inc.
Digimation specializes in developing and delivering 3D solutions for the training and simulation industry including; Interactive Maintenance Trainers, Small Arms Trainers, Virtual Task Trainers, as well as Virtual Environments used in homeland security applications. The company’s service division produces photorealistic 3D parts used in maintenance trainers, OpenFlight 3D models used in simulations, and full 3D animation. Contact: http://www.digimation.com