Changes for v1.0.4.4 are:
- TransMorph Chisel has been tweaked and improved
- Unwarp Chisel and Hammer have been tweaked and improved

realityPaint Pro is available for Max 9 to 2014 and costs $199.95. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v3.47 are:
- Adds support for Max 2014
- Adds support for Ultimate Unwrap 3D Pro v3.47

Changes for SP1 are:
- Adds a new shader for Luxology Modo
- Adds support for Modo 701
- Modo quality has been greatly improved
- States Manager bug-fixes
- Other minor bug-fixes

MOTIVA Colimo is available for Max 2008 to 2014 and costs €139.

Automap is a map plugin that creates height maps, specular maps and diffuse maps from any bitmap. Several extraction algorithms provide great flexibility when generating materials based on photographs. Where specular highlights disturb the results and height maps are needed quickly for bump or displacement mapping, Automap is a great help to quickly generate these maps directly within Max.

The plugin supports the Scanline renderer, mental ray 3.6+ and V-Ray 1.5 SP5 and above.

Automap is available for Max 2010 to 2014 and currently costs €19. As soon as the final product is released, the price will be €39.

Changes for v5.8 are:
- Adds support for Max 2013 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Max 2014 (64-bit only)

Illustrate! is available for Max 2 to 2014 and costs $395. A demo version is available here.

This is an improved version of the V-Ray exposure control which adds the ability to apply response curves from traditional film cameras (Camera Response Curves), as well as allowing adjustments to silver retention.

Changes for v4.1.0 beta are:
- Adds Density/Scale falloff and Boundary Checking for Surface areas
- Adds a right-menu selector for Custom Objects, Surfaces and Areas
- Adds Display->Update All which rebuilds all Forest objects
- Adds support for motion blur in V-Ray
- Adds support for V-Ray 1.5 in Max 2013
- Adds Max 2014 to the installer
- Adds preset materials to the library for Octane and Thea Render
- Some library models have been scaled to a more natural size
- Right click on Creation Panel->Library button now clears current selection
- Presets can now use library materials
- XRef import is now disabled by default for Preset models
- The templates layer now keeps a single copy for each plant model
- Fixes a preset loading error if a Forest object is in the scene with the same name
- Adds support for labels and thumbnails at library level
- Fixes a major viewport slowdown when using animated V-Ray proxies
- Point-cloud colors are now gamma corrected
- Point-cloud mode is suggested for Laubwerk objects
- Fixes a bug with nested Forests when the inner object is in Custom Edit mode
- Geometry->ID Color now properly update after cloning
- 'Add Multiple' selectors now accept geometric objects created from splines
- Fixes updating issues when two or more areas share a spline or object
- Fixes a crash bug using Tree Editor when object is empty
- Fixes item rotation when using Forest in XRef scenes with the 'Bind' option
- MAXScript functions that have size as a param now accept zero to use the default size

Forest Pack Pro is available for Max 9 to 2014 and costs €190. A demo version is available here.

Changes for Build 7.0.1.0132 are:
- Adds a new graph node 'FieldVelocitySet' for setting a velocity field for the fluid
- ArrayNumIndices has been renamed to ArrayIndices and now allows any input type
- DisplayPoint3 node input color should accept a range of input colors
- The 'FieldSample' node now has a new input 'default value'
- Fluid behavior has been improved when inside a container that is moving
- Fixes Hybrido meshes randomly having vertices with infinite speed
- The licensing window no longer shows misleading messages related to the demo version

RealFlow is available for Max 2008 to 2014 and costs €2995. A demo version is available here.

I'm only going to have very limited internet for the next couple of weeks (or no internet at all), so there won't be much in the way of updates happening here for a while.

As soon as I can I'll catch up on the news, so just keep on sending any news items so I can work my way through them later.

Dave

Changes for v1.2.0.12 are:
- Adds support for V-Ray 1.5 for Max 2013
- Some bug-fixes

MultiScatter is available for Max 2008 to 2014 and costs €200.

Changes for v1.0.4.3 are:
- Adds TransMorph Chisel: morph portions of one object into the shape of another object
- Adds Unwarp Chisel and Hammer: restore general shape and topology while preserving large scale morph changes

realityPaint Pro is available for Max 9 to 2014 and costs $199.95. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v2.4.8 are:
- Fixes a bug with the bone translation masks not being saved after editing
- Fixes a bug with the render queue spinner not being enabled/disabled properly

OgreMax is available for Max 8 to 2014 and costs $250. A demo version is available here.

Around the middle of last month, MAX Plugins.de became a teenager. I completely missed the date because I was a bit busy, but it's never too late to roll out a few statistics and say thanks to a few people.

On the 12th of July 2000, MAX Plugins.de went online after a month or so of getting everything set up. 2000 seems to have been a good year for Max sites, because both MaxUnderground and ScriptSpot also started in that year. Since then the site has been getting more and more popular, but I am the first to admit that it is starting to show its age. I had planned to have a new version of the site up and running by now, but apart from a load of updates in the PHP code, I just haven't had the time to get it done. Who knows, maybe I'll manage it some time this year.

Up to the end of July, the site has had well over 21,000,000 pageviews. The database has a total of 7,537 free plugins, 255 mental ray shaders and 505 commercial plugins. The free plugins total looks high because many of the Max 4 plugins also work in Max 5, so they've been counted twice. The same goes for Max 9 / Max 2008, Max 2010 / Max 2011 and Max 2013 / Max 2014.

I'd like to say a big thank you to the very few people who have actually helped support this site. You all know who you are, so thanks once again for helping out. All donations, no matter how small, help to keep the site going. So if this site has helped you out at all in the past, or if it helps you out in the future, please think about clicking on the PayPal button.

All the best, Dave

Changes for Beta 5 are:
- Updates the hard-coded expiration date for the Caustic Visualizer Beta
- Adds a new license key that is valid through September 30th, 2013

The Visualizer for Max is currently in open-beta testing, at some point in the near future it will become a commercial plugin. The Maya Visualizer costs $99, so I assume the Max one will be similarly priced.

Changes for v3.10.41 are:
- Fixes a bug with relinking assets in BatchRender&Relink
- Fixes a bug with the Browse dialog when AutoCad 2014 is installed
- Fixes some minor issues with the interface

FilePathFinder Pro is available for Max 2008 to 2014 and costs $30. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v1.43.40 are:
- Fixes a bug with relinking assets in BatchRender&Relink
- Fixes a bug with the Browse dialog when AutoCad 2014 is installed
- Fixes some minor issues with the interface

Batch Render&Relink is available for Max 2008 to 2014 and costs $15. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v1.65.41 are:
- Fixes a bug with relinking assets in BatchRender&Relink
- Fixes a bug with the Browse dialog when AutoCad 2014 is installed
- Fixes some minor issues with the interface

Project Manager is available for Max 2009 to 2014 and costs $75. A demo version is available here.

Changes for v7.0.1.0131 are:
- Bug-fixes

The RealFlow 3ds Max plugins come with RealFlow, which is available for Max 2008 to 2014 and costs €2995. A demo version is available here.

Changes for Build 1818 are:
- Bug-fixes

Mighty Instruments have announced that the Mighty Tiles Pro public beta will be starting August 1st. Mighty Tiles Pro, designed for professional users, generates high quality textures of brick walls, tiles, parquet, laminate, cobble stones and much more. It is possible to create floor and wall textures which are easily adaptable to your needs. With Mighty Tiles Pro all of your created textures can be made tileable on demand (handy for virtual environments like games), but the scope of Mighty Tiles Pro is not limited to games only. Mighty Tiles Pro supports not only diffuse maps, but all necessary kinds of mappings such as reflection, specular, bump and displacement.

Mighty Tiles Pro includes the organization tool Mighty Library, which gives you the benefit of an integrated tagging technique to retrieve what you are looking for more comfortably than simply searching via names. All of the integrated content is already pre-tagged.