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CorVex

Posted by Shawn on Dec 10, 2013 | Last Updated Jan 9, 2022

CorVex is a geometry plugin for 3ds Max aimed at quickly building game level layout and convex walls with simple parametric controls and planar UV mapping.

corvex, level design, plugin, wall, walls, blocks, convex, parametric

Sky Writer

Posted by Shawn on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated Jul 4, 2020

Sky writer allows you to render your 3ds Max scene straight into the Source Game Engine as a HDR 2D sky texture (also known as a cubemap).

sky writer, skies, pfm

Displacements

Posted by Shawn on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated Oct 22, 2024

An overview of creating displacements for the Source Game Engine inside 3ds Max using Anvil.

displacement, edit mode, sculpt mesh

ShellVex

Posted by Shawn on May 20, 2015 | Last Updated Apr 22, 2020

ShellVex is a scripted geometry plugin for 3ds Max that allows you to create convex geometry blocks from the polygons (or tris) of other objects in the scene.

brush, bsp, geometry, world geometry, plugin

Textures

Posted by Shawn on Feb 12, 2012 | Last Updated Jan 23, 2020

This page details how materials in 3ds Max map to materials in Source. There are two types of materials you can export: model materials and world materials.

materials, textures, vmt, vtf, tga, source engine

Exporting CAT and Biped Models

Posted by Shawn on Jul 19, 2013 | Last Updated Dec 10, 2014

Export your CAT or Biped rig from 3ds Max into the Source Game Engine with Wall Worm.

cat, biped, animation, character, bip, skin, animated model

Unknown Bitmap Filetypes Crash VMF Exporter

Do not use bitmap filetypes that Max doesn't know how to read.

Posted by Shawn on Oct 18, 2012 | Last Updated Oct 18, 2012

Using unknown bitmap types on world geometry and displacements will crash the VMF Exporter. This currently happens if using VTFs in materials in 3ds Max 2013 since there is no VTF plugin yet.

vmf, crash, material, vtf