appleseed-max 0.4.6-beta

This is a beta release of appleseed-max, an appleseed plugin for Autodesk 3ds Max 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Keep in mind this is beta-quality software and there are a number of known bugs that will be fixed in the next releases of the plugin.

Additional information are available on appleseed's users forum.

Changes

• Added limited support for ActiveShade rendering (camera updates only in this release).
• Added support for the Physical Camera available in 3ds Max 2016 and later.
• Allow using native 3ds Max maps with appleseed (no export possible though).
• appleseed materials now only appear when appleseed is the selected renderer.
• Allow picking a light to act as the Sun light from the appleseed environment map.
• Allow adjusting the Sun's size in the appleseed environment map.
• Increased environment map baking resolution to 2048x1024.
• Improved sky parameter labels in environment map.
• No longer add default lights if the environment emits lights.
• Fixed camera's film dimensions when Depth of Field is enabled.
• Fixed assignment of default materials to objects.
• Automatically append .appleseed extension to output project path if missing.
• Removed irrelevant tabs from Render Setup dialog.

This release was built against appleseed 1.8.0-beta.

Installation

The following are installation instructions for 3ds Max 2017. Replace 2017 by the appropriate value for other versions of 3ds Max.

1. If you have installed a previous version of the plugin, first uninstall it by deleting the appleseed folder from C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2017\plugins.
2. Unzip the archive to C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2017\plugins.
3. Launch 3ds Max, go to Customize → Configure System Paths... → 3rd Party Plug-Ins, click Add... and choose the C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2017\plugins\appleseed folder.

At this point the plugin should be installed and loaded in 3ds Max. Go to Customize → Plug-in Manager... and check that APPLESEED-MAX2017.DLR is present and loaded.