BerconMaps

Notice! The maps continue to be available here, but I’m not providing any support for them. They are open source and licensed under Apache 2.0. If you need another type of license for them please contact me via email. If you wish to have these maps on later 3dsmax versions than supported by existing binaries, I recommend asking somebody with 3dsmax SDK and few hours to spare, it usually doesn’t take much to recompile them.

• Free and open source • Five new texture maps to 3ds Max • Noise, Wood, Tile, Distortion and Gradient

Download binaries and source: BerconMaps_3_04

For latest source code go to GitHub page of BerconMaps

Wood

3D wood map that allows you to make all kinds of different wood patterns.

The patterns are truly 3-dimensional so you don’t need any mapping coordinates.

Noise

3D noise map that offers you all well-known noise patterns such as Perlin, Worley and Simplex.

Support for large number of fractal options such as fBm and Turbulence.

With distortion and mapping all parameters from Size to Fractal Levels you get infinite number of different patterns.

Tile

The only 2D map of the group offers all common brick patterns and their variations.

Advanced UVW mapping options allows you to map bitmaps into tiles.

Rounding and smoothing corners ensures that the map works perfectly in bump mapping and displacement.

Gradient

Combines features of 3ds Max’s own Gradient Ramp, Falloff and Particle Age maps and expands them even further.

Allows you easily to control color variation between objects and particles.

Fully animatable and Maxscriptable gradient that is lightning fast to render.

Distortion

Allows you to distort any and all 3ds Max’s texture maps with other maps.

This feature is also integrated in all of my other maps to distort only their pattern and not any submaps they may be using.

Install

Copy the correct file into your 3dsmax plugins folder (for example: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2008\plugins). After this you can find the maps in your material editor just like every other 3ds max map.

Error when launching 3ds Max

If you get error while starting max once you’ve copied the correct version (32/64) of the file into your plugins folder you need to instal Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package, its a small file and doesn’t require VS2005 or anything.

Download 32/64 bit MS VC++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=766a6af7-ec73-40ff-b072-9112bab119c2

Source code

****Included in the download above.

**Supported renderers **

****Scanline, finalRender, VRay and Brazil. mental ray is NOT supported, it would take me too much time to do the conversion. Maps are open source so if somebody really really wants the maps on mental ray, they can be ported by anybody.

Version history 26.05.2014 – 3.04 – Max 2015 support (by Vlado) – Fixed two crashes in the Material Editor in Max 2015 version (by Vlado) — One related to the BerconXYZ::seedRandomGen() method – no check if sc.Node() is NULL — Another one that seemed related to the curve control – I think it happened because the resourcemakercallback was not implemented quite correctly (you can’t create ReferenceMakers on the heap, you need to either use an existing one, or use CreateInstance()). 17.04.2012 – 3.03 – Max 2013 support, conversion to Unicode – Included MultiTexture (http://www.cg-source.com/multitexture.php) 05.11.2010 – 3.01 – Fixed Tile map requiring manual update to show up correctly after loading scene (fixes Distributed Rendering problems too I hope) – Added version tag to coordinate rollout so you can check which version you are currently running 06.06.2010 – 3.0 – Major chances that make the maps uncompatible with older 2.0 version maps – See all changes in the “release_notes.txt” file that is included in the download 16.04.2009 – 2.0b Released (Max 2010 version) – The Gradient reseting fix is NOT included in Max 2010 2.0b version 12.01.2009 – 2.0b Released (Max 9, 2008 and 2009 versions) – Fixed curve in Noise and Gradient, it failed to save with scene – Fixed reseting gradient, which left current key selected although it might have been removed. 11.01.2009 – 2.0 Released (Max 9, 2008 and 2009 versions) – Redesigned the Gradient map – BerconNoise: Fixed bug that disabled Perlin (Old) noise. – BerconNoise, Tile, Wood: Fixed incorrect subanim names – BerconTile: Fixed bug with distortion 25.12.2008 – 1.2 Released (Max 9, 2008 and 2009 versions) – Added Gradient map – Optimized Noise, Wood and Tile to make them slightly faster – Fixed crash with Noise and Wood in Max 2009 when jumping between two maps of same type 31.10.2008 – 1.1d Released (Max 9, 2008 and 2009 versions) – Fixed Tile map, it didn’t work as expected as bumpmap 25.07.2008 – 1.1c Released (Max 9, 2008 and 2009 versions) – Fixed bug with map names not saved properly – Added “Linear” wood type 08.07.2008 – 1.1b Released (Max 9, 2008 and 2009 versions) 07.07.2008 – 1.1b Released (Max 9, 2008 and 2009 versions) – Enabled “Show Map in Viewport” button 07.07.2008 – 1.1 Released (Max 8 version) 06.07.2008 – 1.1 Released (Max 9, 2008 and 2009 versions) – Added Stack Bond style to Tile – Added fBm Turbulence fractal type to Noise – Removed 0.0 – 1.0 limit from low and high treshold in Noise – Limited Skew parameter correctly in Wood – Fixed Tab Order (When you switch fields with tab) – Fixed Tile bug with tile map when its used as bumpmap – Fixed bug in Fractal fractal type in Noise – Fixed typo in Tile – Fixed disabling maps with Color variation style in Tile 21.04.2008 – Max 2009 version released 06.02.2008 – Max 8 version released 03.02.2008 – 1.0 Released

Credits

– Ken Perlin (Perlin/Simplex noise) – Stefan Gustavson (C++ implementation of Perlin and Simplex noises) – Steven Worley (Worley noise and C implementation of it) – Blender team (Blender noise/cellnoise/fractals) – John Burnett (Distortions max shadecontext implementation) – David Baker (Compiled Max 8 version of the plugin and edited source codes for Max 8) – Vladislav Gavrilov (Helped with integrating my custom gradient control into Max) – Thomas Suurland (Paid for development of MultiTexture and allowed it to be added to this package)