Changes for Build 1807 are:
- Bug-fixes

Changes for v1.499 beta include:
- Adds new Wall and Floor tools
- Adds a new WinDoor tool for creating custom window and door objects
- Adds a Fence tool
- Adds windows and doors to the Shape Library
- Adds fences and columns to the Shape Library
- There is now a demo version

FuturArch is available for Max 2012 to 2013 (both 64-bit only) and costs $225. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v3.7 are:
- Adds support for Max 2013 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Adds support for Adobe CS6
- Adds support for Unicode characters

MAX2AE is available for Max 9 to 2013 and costs $250. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v1.10 are:
- Fixes image preview in some versions of Max
- Batch render now works with V-Ray
- Adds color multiply
- Adds viewport preview
- New fast shadow cache
- New fast shadow calculation
- Adds camera overwrite
- Adds 'Relink A2Dimages' parameter

A2Dimage is available for Max 7 to 2013 and costs €23.99. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v1.1 are:
- Adds support for KeyShot 4

Changes for v2.40.03 are:
- You can now map the FogColor swatch in the VRayMtl
- Fixes an issue with VRayMtl translucency

V-Ray is available for Max 9 to 2013 and costs $1350. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v1.11 are:
- Horizontal books are now replaced with vertical if shelf dimensions / fill parameter is too small

Bookmanager is available for Max 2008 to 2013 and costs $40. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v2.9.13.0 include:
- 3ds Max Shading/Illumination channel now exports as the second color channel if present
- Brought Granny's Telemetry integration up to the latest 1.10 release
- You can now have multiple inputs for an event mixer node
- Adds a UI to manipulate multiple inputs in an event mixer node
- Adds Edit_GetChildByName script function
- Adds Edit_AddInputIfPossible script function
- Edit_ConnectNodes now returns a status indicator for success
- Fixes a bug in the Edit_IsInputExternal scripting wire-up
- Adds scripting hooks for setting event tracks on anim_source nodes
- Fixes the Mask preview for rigid meshes
- Adds support for the new versions of Max and Maya
- Fixes the plugin installer for Maya 2013.5
- TimeSelect node can now handle morph edges
- Fixes a GetDuration() consistency issue with BlendGraph nodes
- Optimized the case of GrannyMaskedAdditiveBlend and GrannyAdditiveBlend if the weight is 0 or 1
- Animation studio camera can now be controlled from the XInput device
- And much more... a full list of changes can be found here

Granny Exporter is available for Max 6 to 2013, and is part of the Granny Toolkit which costs $17,500.

Changes for v4.0.1 include:
- Adds native support for VRayRT, Maxwell, Arion, Octane and Thea Render
- Adds 3D models of grass, flowers and stones
- Adds ready-to-use presets
- Adds support for models organized in separate meshes or groups
- Commonly used options have been moved to the main window
- Adds render engine selector for libraries that support multiple materials
- Classic 2D Library is no longer installed by default
- Adds support for groups in Custom Objects
- Adds compatibility with Laubwerk Plants
- Adds multi-select support for editing or deleting multiple items at once
- Adds lock aspect ratio button to Geometry->Width/Height
- Geometry->Material is no longer a required parameter
- Forest automaterials are now generated using random names to avoid duplicates
- Optimize Material works on the custom object material if Geometry List->Material isn't defined
- Point-clouds now use a simulated shading mode to improve 3D look
- Adds global and local density parameters for point-clouds
- Nested Forest objects no longer require Render->Meshes mode
- Adds custom look-at targets, independent from the camera
- Adds Density/Scale falloff curves by slope
- And much much more... a full list of changes can be found here

Forest Pack Pro is available for Max 9 to 2013 and costs €180. A demo version is available here.

Thea for 3dsMax is a so-called 'Live' plugin that integrates the Thea renderer from SolidIris directly into Max.

Features include:
- Integrated interactive render engine
- Easy workflow
- Support for Forest Pack Pro and external references
- A Thea Random Material to add more variations on replicated objects
- A material converter
- A light catalogue for Thea lights
- A resource collector

Thea for 3dsMax is available for Max 2009 to 2013 and costs €320 when bundled with a Thea Render standard license. The plugin without Thea Render costs €69.50. A demo version is available here.

Studio 75ive have extended their sale offering a 30% discount on all of their products (Ant Traffic Simulator v1.0 and Ant Stitcher v1.02) until the end of February.

Changes for v2013-02-11 include:
- Adds import and export plugins for Max 2013 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Collada plugin improvements (import joints, optional texture compression, animation drop-down list)
- Fixes a bug with memory consumption in the Collada import plugin for some meshes

Unigine Exporter is part of the Unigine 3D Engine which costs $9,980. The exporter is available for Max 8 to 2013. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v0.3.53 beta are:
- Adds a new Bidirectional Path Tracing engine
- Fixes SSS
- Change in glossy reflection: distribution changed from GGX to Beckmann

Di-O-Matic are spreading some love on Valentine's Day by offering a 14% discount on all of their products. The offer is only valid today, and all details can be found here.

Grant Adam, the author of RPManager, has updated a number of his freeware and commercial plugins for Max 2013:
- BetterWind v1.02
- Map to Vertex Color v1.0
- Blur Vertex Color v1.0
- Spline Mesher v1.2
- Tension Modifier v1.2
- Transmographier v1.1

Changes for v5.06 are:
- V-Ray should no longer lose its license when used with an RPM floating license
- Increased unicode support for non english OS setup

This version of RPManager is available for Max 2013 and costs $300. A demo version is available here.

This plugin can be used to choose one or more nodes in the scene and create 'exploded' geometry. The exploded geometry is actually 3 or 4 sided faces and you have the options to add modifiers to enhance the finished geometry to your needs.

Changes for v2.2.1.0 are:
- Fixes the render settings modifier not applying assigned maps after loading a scene
- Fixes hair from guides not collapsing viewport hair into baked hair
- Fixes baked hair rendering viewport hair instead of render hair
- Fixes a crash when clustering modifier data gets corrupted

Ornatrix is available for Max 2009 to 2013 and costs $499. A demo version is available here.

RayFire Cache allows you to cache thousands of objects and their animation in a single file to keep all mesh and animation data outside of the scene. Using a variety of playback properties you can get results completely different from what was cached.

Features include:
- Geometry and transformation caching
- Animatable speed property
- Playback by playback graph
- Reverse playback
- Caching with respect to Visibility track
- Playback activation by animated sub-object gizmo
- Per Element playback control by actions: hold in/out, offset, delete by age
- Load types: stream, per-sample, pre-load
- Custom viewport and render properties
- Explode: bake cached animation back to animated fragments
- Free loader for render farms

RayFire Cache is available for Max 2009 to 2013 and costs $95. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v1.61 are:
- Adds the RayFire Cache object for geometry and animation caching in a single file
- Adds support for Alembic animated objects
- The clustering algorithm has been enhanced

RayFire Tool is available for Max 2009 to 2013 and costs $355. A demo version is available here.

Laubwerk Plants are your easy way to use high quality, botanically approved plants with multiple variations, ages and seasons in your 3D application. Visual plant library browsing, a wide range of Level of Detail Options and much more comes through the bundled Laubwerk Player, a piece of software that brings the plant dataset to life.

The Laubwerk Player provides quick visual access to the plant library on your computer, automatic generation of default materials, dynamic control for level of detail. You get multiple viewport drawing options (like a simple hull shape or a skeleton) for quick and feedback and low memory footprint while editing the scene and generates the fully detailed model dynamically at render time.

Laubwerk Plants Kit 1 is available for Max 2010 to 2013 and costs €178. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v2.40.01 include:
- Adds support for rendering HairFarm 2.0 with V-Ray
- VRayProxies now support Alembic .abc files
- Adds support for instancing in V-Ray RT
- Adds support for Forest Pro instancing in V-Ray RT
- V-Ray RT CPU now updates faster when adjusting VRayLights
- CUDA speed optimizations and optimizations for GK110 cards in V-Ray RT GPU
- V-Ray RT GPU now supports the ColorCorrection texture
- V-Ray RT GPU now supports the Mix texture
- Adds include/exclude object lists for different color channels to the MultiMatte RE
- Adds an option to the VRayExtraTex RE to avoid auto-renaming when the texture is changed
- The default memory limit for dynamic geometry changed to 4000MB for x64 versions
- Fixes an issue that was slowing down multi-core rendering for VRayProxy objects
- Optimized multi-core rendering for OpenEXR textures
- Optimized unnecessary velocity calculations when no velocity channel is needed
- V-Ray components now register in the respective menus across different language builds of Max
- V-Ray RT CPU now supports VRayHairMtl
- V-Ray RT CPU now supports VRayFur
- V-Ray scene converter now exports mr_Sun/mr_Sky lights to VRaySun/VRaySky
- Adds subdivided geometry export to the V-Ray scene exporter
- Improved the round corners algorithm in VRayEdgesTex
- Adds some animated parameters to VRayAmbientLight
- Adds a 'Level Of Detail' option to VRayFur to reduce geometry along the distance from the camera
- Adds a 'Color space' section to VRayHDRI and moved the 'Gamma' option there
- Adds an option to override the IES shape in VRayIESLight
- Clicking on the line between a VRayIESLight and its target now selects both of them
- Adds a preview of the 'directionality' parameter of VRayLights in the viewports
- Adds a 'targeted' option for rectangle VRayLights
- Adds textured lighting for VRayLight/VRayIESLight in Nitrous viewport
- The sample VRayMeshGeom plugin has been extended to create V-Ray Standalone shaders on the fly
- VRayMtl 'Fog color' is now mappable
- VRayMtl reflections now affect the alpha of matte objects
- Adds the ability to save and load compiled shaders in VRayMtlGLSL
- Adds cubemap texture support to VRayMtlGLSL
- Adds a viewport color parameter to VRayMtlGLSL
- Adds vr_brdf_light built-in BRDF support to VRayMtlGLSL
- VRayProxy now supports flipping of Z/Y axis
- Adds VRayProxy support for visibility lists for .vrmesh and .abc files
- VRaySphereFade now supports box and cylinder gizmos
- Adds an option to ply2vrmesh to specify the name of the velocity attribute
- Adds support in ply2vrmesh for .hclassic and .bhclassic files produced by Houdini 12
- Adds support for color sets from .bgeo files to ply2vrmesh
- ply2vrmesh can now export the face and vertex normals in .geo and .bgeo files
- ply2vrmesh can now store the V-Ray user attributes when creating a proxy
- And much much more... a full list of changes and fixes can be found here (PDF)

V-Ray is available for Max 9 to 2013 and costs $1350. This update is free for registered users. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v2.0 are:
- Adds 'Corner Align', which allows you to easily create corners by connecting vertices or edges

miauu's Script Pack is available for Max 9 to 2013 and costs €12.

Changes for Update 7 are:
- Fixes some problems with the installer
- Uninstall now works

Changes for v1.0.2.2 are:
- Massive improvement to painting with brush strokes with low spacing values
- Decreased the default spacing from 20% to 10%
- Eliminated most if not all of the UI flickering in when updating
- Improved the handing for drawing tablets
- Fixes a problem that caused the interface to flicker
- In the Manager, creating a new map now refreshes the map list
- The Box Select and Lasso Select tools now show the Hidden Surface Removal options
- Fixes a problem where a texture map would show up while navigating after deleting it
- Fixes the 'REFERENCE OBJECT...' warning being given incorrectly
- Fixes a problem with paint strokes temporarily disappearing
- Fixes polygons remaining unpaintable when symmetry was switched off

realityPaint Pro is available for Max 9 to 2013 and costs $159.95. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v3.42 are:
- Updated the UV scaling tool
- Fixes an issue with selecting edge loops

Ultimate Unwrap 3D supports Max 4 to 2013 and costs $49.95. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v1.1 are:
- Adds random rotation for horizontal books
- Adds random shift for horizontal books
- Adds the ability to set the quantity of rotated and shifted horizontal books
- Adds the ability to flip only horizontal or only vertical books
- Adds the ability to save user settings
- Adds support for 3ds Max language packs
- The default values are now more appropriate for different system units
- Placement of horizontal, leaning and vertical groups of books is now more random
- The Command Panel no longer causes an error when it isn't docked to the right

Bookmanager is available for Max 2008 to 2013 and costs $40. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v12.0 include:
- Adds support for Max 2013 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Adds support for Maya 2013
- Improved Collada I/O
- Adds support for the LXO file format
- Adds VRML97 format support (read only)
- Improved Sketchup format support (now read and write)
- 3DS import now supports material or texture names longer than 13 chars
- Material conversion has been improved when getting a scene from Max
- Adds an Update mode when saving a file
- New normal calculation which results in an improved display
- The Print feature now proposes automatic settings
- A default file name is now given to scenes imported from Max
- The default background color is now a grey color
- The point and face number is now correct when the scene has patches
- Patch conversion now displays objects correctly
- A full list of changes can be found here

3D Browser for 3D Users is available for Max 6 to 2013 and costs $69. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v1.32 are:
- Fixes preview models not being visible in the Material Editor
- Fixes a Particle System Editor crash when editing a list of emitters
- Fixes a Resource Editor error when importing skeleton animation
- The Assimp library used for model import has been updated to 3.0
- Adds the Doppler effect to the Sound System

Changes for Build 1802 are:
- Bug-fixes
- XSG enhancement : 'texture' element in material replaced with 'input'

Changes for v2.2.0.0 are:
- DeepShadow ray bias parameter now uses a multiplier to allow values smaller than 0.01
- Dynamics root actor uses the wisp size
- Removed the soft selection rollup from edit guides strands sub-object level
- Fixes the installer for 2013 version not putting MR files into the correct directory
- Topology orientation option is now set to true by default
- Improved guide and hair generation
- Deep shadow rendering can now use arbitrary resolutions for the shadow buffer
- Fixes a crash when loading a scene with strand symmetry modifier
- Render settings modifier now applies assigned maps right after loading a scene

Ornatrix is available for Max 2009 to 2013 and costs $499. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v2.0 are:
- Adds support for texture maps
- Adds support for Max 2013 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- The plugin is now commercial
- Registered users also receive a version for unlimited network rendering

Random Color is available for Max 2011 to 2013 and costs $40. A demo version is available here.

e-on software, inc. have made a trial version of their Carbon Scatter instancing plugin available for download. The Carbon Scatter Trial Version is a free, fully functional version of Carbon Scatter 2, aside from the following limitations:
- The Trial Version ships with a limited collection of plants and polygonal meshes
- It is limited to rendering up to a total of 10000 instances
- Saving scenes and network rendering is disabled
- It is for personal, non-commercial use only
- Files cannot be exchanged with other Trial users
- Files are not compatible with commercial versions of Carbon Scatter 2
- Carbon Botanica is not available in the Trial Version
- Once installed, the Trial Version will work for 30 days

Carbon Scatter is available for Max 2009 to 2013 and costs $195. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v0.0.8 are:
- Adds support for new Pangya models

Changes for v4.4 include:
- Next-gen mesh support for 256 UV and color channels
- Skinning support for 16 bones per vertex
- 3ds Max DirectX Shader material import support
- Vertex illumination support in the Max plugin
- MaterialID visualization in the GUI
- Adds GUI rendering shortcuts
- Adds FPS camera in the GUI

Simplygon is available for Max 2009 to 2013, and I don't have any information on pricing. A demo version is available here.

SplineLand helps to generate topographically accurate terrains from a set of splines, and lets you easily add roads to your terrain.

Features include:
- Create precise and topologically correct terrains from splines representing topographic contours
- A powerful algorithm lets you control the level of details only in areas you need
- You can use any type of spline, including open splines
- Add roads to the terrain as well as level areas, bedding courses and ground cuts
- You can assign ID's to various terrain details
- Control over grid density

SplineLand is available for Max 2008 to 2013 and normally costs €150. For a limited time, you can purchase a license for €100.

Changes for v0.8.0.13027 are:
- Fixes a bug where two versions of Py3dsMax were being installed

Changes for v1.0 are:
- Adds support for Max 2013 (32-bit and 64-bit)

XrayBlendSkin is available for Max 2008 to 2013 and costs €15.