MaxTiles

Flexible Walls and Floors in 3Ds Max

MaxTiles combines a set of material and map plugins that any architect or 3D visualization artist will love. Unlike static bitmap textures, MaxTiles materials can CHANGE BOND PATTERNS, REPLACE AND MIX BRICKS, CHANGE EDGES, RANDOMIZE COLORS, POSITIONS, SURFACE and much more. MaxTiles combines the power of:

Walls & Tiles – A scripted material to create standard walls and floors
Crossmap – A map plugin to massively distribute bitmaps on geometry or within materials
Color Extract – A map plugin to distribute up to 100 extracted colors from an image

Whatever needs an architect or 3D artist might have, MaxTiles offers unprecedented flexibility and ease-of-use when creating wall and floor materials in 3Ds Max.

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INCLUDED 3DS MAX® PLUGINS

Walls & Tiles | Crossmap | Color Extract | Material Manager

Walls & Tiles

Scripted Material for standard Walls and Floors

Creating standard walls and floors was never easier. WALLS & TILES is an easy-to-use scripted 3Ds Max material that creates procedural walls and floors based on multiple bitmaps. The auto-loader loads bitmaps from a folder into the corresponding layers for bump, diffuse, reflection and displacement, without the need to manually load every single bitmap by hand. Once loaded, you can select one of 16 bond patterns, set the size, randomize position, color and surface, and you are ready to go. The Real-World mapping mode simplifies the use of wall textures in scenes by eliminating the need for individual uv-mapping per object.

16 pre-defined Bond patterns
Autoload bitmaps for all layers (diffuse, bump, reflection)
75 ready-to-render materials included (for v-ray and corona)

Watch introduction video (7 min.)

NO MORE REPETITION

LARGE WALLS WITHOUT REPETITIVE TILING

When using standard bitmaps to create walls or floors, in most cases REPETITION will be visible, resulting in an unrealistic and unwanted effect in a image. Avoiding this repetition would require a very large bitmap, which again uses a lot of RAM in high resolution. Besides, such textures are difficult to get anyway.

Walls & Tiles uses random algorithms to distribute bricks or tiles in a pattern. Using this method not only SAVES RAM but it also avoids visible REPETITION, resulting in a more realistic look.

Flexible Patterns

CHANGE BOND PATTERNS ON THE FLY

With Walls & Tiles you are not limited to the BOND PATTERN from your bitmap texture. You can choose from 16 different bond patterns for brick walls, tiled floors or interior wall tiles. With any set of brick or stone floor multi-textures, the patterns can be changed on the fly.

The included bond patterns offer a wide variety of standard bonds for many kinds of walls and floors, found in old ancient buildings, modern architecture, large buildings, standard houses and even interior floor tiles.

The integrated CUSTOM BOND can be used to create your own bond patterns, if required. More information can be found in the REFERENCE GUIDE.

… MORE RANDOMIZATION

OF COLOR, POSITION, SURFACE

Bricks can further be changed randomly: Diffuse maps can be varied by randomizing HUE, SATURATION, VALUE for every brick. BUMP levels, REFLECTION levels and DISPLACEMENT levels can be randomized to get more surface variation and ROTATION, SIZE, POSITION and WIDTH can be randomized to avoid straight lines.

As a result, even with few or even only one bitmap, a large random wall or floor can be created.

Crossmap

Massively Random Bitmaps

Crossmap is a 3Ds Max shader that randomly distributes bitmaps on geometry (objects, elements, faces etc.). Just select a folder with bitmaps and automatically load these into one single map. Crossmap is the core for random materials in Walls & Tiles and OmniTiles, but can also be used on geometry directly, to create more variety on trees, grass, gravel, stones, flowers, wood fences and much more. With Crossmap, it´s not necessary to create multiple materials for every single variation.

Crossmap goes one step further where other solutions stop. Considerung the flexible load filter, the randomization modes, random color variations, input map or color matching, no other map offers such flexibility and variety.

One map for massive bitmap randomization
Works with Omnitiles and Walls & Tiles
Distribution modes for objects, faces, elements, Forest Pack Pro and more…

Color & BITMAP Randomization

FROM ONE TO MANY

CROSSMAP doesn´t stop with multiple bitmaps. All bitmaps can further be varied by color using hue, saturation and value. This way it´s very easy to create random variation with only one or few bitmaps.

Globally Crossmap has color adjustments for all bitmaps together, including GAMMA, HUE, SATURATION, CONTRAST, EXPOSURE and BRIGHTNESS. Using these adjustments makes it easy to create bump, displacement or reflection maps from the source Crossmap using colored diffuse maps. Just copy the map to another layer, adjust the global colors and there you go.

Flexible Distribution

RANDOMIZE BITMAPS ON ANYTHING

Per element distributes the bitmaps based on elements of an object. In this example, each leaf has one of 12 random bitmaps.

Per face distributes the bitmaps based on the faces / polygons of an object. This example shows a simple plane with random bitmaps on each of the faces.

Per face ID distributes the bitmaps based on face IDs. Each face ID (triangle in this case) gets a random separate bitmap from the list.

Per Material ID distributes the bitmaps based on material IDs. IDs were manually defined on faces in edit poly mode.

Per Object distributes the bitmaps on Objects. In this example, thousands of stones, scattered with ForestPack Pro, use random bitmaps.

Per Object ID distributes the bitmaps based on G-Buffer IDs of objects. In this example the teapots have one ID and the ground plane another ID.

Omnitiles/BerconTile ID distributes the bitmaps based on Omnitiles or BerconTile patterns. Each brick in the pattern gets a random single bitmap of a brick.

Use Input Map distributes the bitmaps based on the values of another bitmap or procedural map.

Color Extract

Create Random Colors from Photos

It has never been faster before to create or assign multiple colors at once. And it has never been easier to exchange and use multiple natural colors from photos before.

Color Extract is a shader map plugin for 3Ds Max that extracts up to 100 colors from any photo to be randomly assigned to objects, elements, faces, or even other procedural maps; a very fast and easy way to assign grass colors to grass blades, tree colors to leaves or sand colors based on real photos.

The selection of distribution modes in Color Extract includes options from randomizing colors to objects, elements, faces as well as using BerconTile for colored tiles and Forest Pack Pro or Multiscatter for more colors on scattered objects.

Extract up to 100 colors from any photo or image
Distribute colors on geometry, within maps, Omntiles or via Forest Pack Pro
Change multiple colors with just one click by loading a new source image

The Rich Color Enhancer

FROM PHOTOS TO COLORS

COLOR EXTRACT starts where one color ends. Any bitmap can be used to extract up to 100 most common colors from the bitmap. These colors can be used to randomize any material, map, object´s color or other map channel to enhance richness and create more variation in a scene. It´s as simple as loading a bitmap, assigning a distribution mode and rendering.

Flexible Distribution

RANDOMIZE COLORS ON ANYTHING

Per object distributes the colors based randomly or in a sequence on objects.

Per face distributes the colors based on the faces / polygons of an object. This example uses three colors on faces of a plane and cube.

BerconTile ID distributes the colors randomly on a brick pattern, in this case just the pure diffuse colors.

Per vray Instance distributes the colors on strands of vray fur, so that every strand has a different color.

Per Input Map maps the colors on any other map based on the brightness of the input map. In this example, the stones and ground use a noise map with different colors mapped on the noise brightness.

Per Element distributes the colors based on the elements of an object. This example maps different colors on each leaf of the tree.

Per Omnitiles ID distributes the colors based on Omnitiles tile IDs. Each tile has a different color, in this case matched to the repeating pattern.

Per Particle ID distributes the colors based on particles from Particle Flow.

TERMS OF USE

FREE TO USE – but …

MaxTiles is available for 3Ds Max for FREE as is, but WITHOUT support or liability. This means that you can use this software and the included content for free without paying anything, even in commercial productions.

COMPATIBILITY

MaxTiles is compatible with 3Ds Max 2016 – 2021. Newer versions of 3Ds Max are not supported and there are no plans to support Max 2022 or newer at the moment.

LICENSE THE CODE ?

If you´re interested in licensing or buying the code for your own company, please get in touch with us. We´re open for any serious offer.

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