Project Manager

Submitted by Kstudio on Tue, 2010-09-14 09:37

Version:

3.35.26

Date Updated:

04/15/2024

Author Name:

Oleksandr Kramer

3rd version of Project Manager gains a lot of new features to manage 3D Assets.

What is most unique to the new features – is the ability to assign custom previews to materials, associate files with materials, and create a gallery of files associated with any type of assets including materials.

You can also write a description for materials and, of course, assign categories to materials.

Project Manager version 3.35.26

CORE UPDATES AND SUPPORT ENHANCEMENTS:

Adds support to 3Ds Max 2025
Adds support to search/relink/collect/archive the content of IFL files
Adds support to search/relink/collect/archive the content of Vrmat files
Adds support to archives larger than 4GB [Archive Asset Files]
Speed improvements for navigation

ASSET AND FILE MANAGEMENT:

Enhanced File ReLocate Capability
Adds Ability to Sort Assets by Asset Type/Extension
Adds Ability to Include/Exclude Files from Collecting by Extension
Adds Ability to Include/Exclude Files from Renaming by Extension
Adds Ability to Include/Exclude Directories from Searching by mask
"Duplicate Asset Replacement" Dialog UI Improvements
Stores the sorting order for assets on the Explorer tab
Adds an ability to disable auto-relink missing assets on merging models and materials (by default auto-relink is disabled)
Fixes some bugs with renaming assets/directories on using in the TEAM-MODE
Fixes a bug when collecting maps for several materials libraries [Batch Render&Relink]

RENDERING AND THUMBNAILS:

Adds an ability to set different width/height for rendering preview thumbnails for models and materials
Adds an ability to turn off/on lights from model scenes on rendering preview thumbnails
Drops support to rendering preview for IES files (interactive rendering already supports IES)
New option to render preview settings - Ignore Fit To Dummy: prioritize the pivot point of the model over its alignment within the Dummy boundary

MATERIAL AND MODEL HANDLING:

"Duplicate Asset Replacement" Dialog for duplicated assets on storing models/materials to the library
Copy content of IFL files on storing models/materials to the library with assets
Adds an ability to use the Mass-Rename tool from the Manage Assets dialog for individual 3ds Max files and material libraries

INTERFACE AND USABILITY IMPROVEMENTS:

Some Interface Improvements and Changes
Changes the behavior of Categories list on the status bar
Fixes an issue with sorting items by Size and Date in the Categories and Search results
Show more accurate information about missing files in the status bar
Introduces importing capability from the DesignConnected database [Preferences/Database/Import Database]

BUG FIXES AND MINOR ADJUSTMENTS:

Fixes some minor issues with merging models
Fixes some issues with reusing merged proxy and models
Fixes an issue with creating PBR materials with Arnold renderer
Fixes an issue pausing Corona interactive render on merging models or materials
Fixes a bug with deleting assets
Fixes a bug with converting a scene to VRSCENE
Fixes an issue with converting 16-bit TIF to JPG
Fixes some minor issues with searching assets
Fixes a bug with deleting files
Fixes an issue with preview RPC, BVH, and BIP files
Fixes an issue with assigning a preview for materials using the Auto-Assign preview tool
Fixes some issues with the item's Gallery - add/remove/update preview
Fixes an issue with assigning preview for materials with some options using the Auto-Assign preview tool
Fixes some issues with working with the docked Slate Material Editor in 3ds Max 2024/2025
Fixes some minor issues with interactive rendering of some static and animated FBX files
Fixes a bug with copying databases from MySQL to SQLite and back
Fixes the issues with the tool "Convert Comments&Tags from 2nd version"

Update History for all versions.

Models	Materials
Textures	IES	Asset Files

Quick Start Frequently Asked Questions

Main Features

Easy to organize and use 3ds Max Models, Materials, Textures, and IES Photometric Lights.
Merge Models, Materials, Bitmaps, and IES using Drag& Drop.
Store/Create Proxy with materials.
Interactive rendering previews for Materials, IES Photometric, BVH Motion capture, FBX, OBJ, 3DS, and other such 3d files.
Show native previews for 3ds Max files, ArchVision RPC, GrowFx, Revit, Substance, BIP motion, SketchUp, Revit, HDRI & etc.
Create PBR (Physically Based Rendering) materials
Support to Substance textures
Search files by tags and file-names.
Power Asset Tracking Management.
Support to most used renderers like V-Ray, Corona, Octane, Mental Ray, Maxwell & etc.