Particle Flow Tools: Box #3 Pro

The Wizard of OrbaZ presents Particle Flow Tools: Box#3 Pro: a toolset for creating your own Particle Flow tools. You can build standard operators and tests as well as those that use icons. Box#3 Pro lets you save your results as presets that you can choose from a list, or as standard actions that show up in the Particle View depot. The built-in visual editor, as easy to use as Particle View but far more versatile, lets you combine 27 different suboperators (elements) to customize a data flow to suit your needs perfectly.

Box#3 Pro also includes two new Cache operators for making Particle Flow more efficient and seven customizable presets that show off the incredible power of this new tool (with more on the way). And so you can distribute your custom PFlow operators to the rest of your team, Orbaz provides a free read-only version of Box#3 Pro, plus a demo version for trying out the software before you buy.

Features include:

• A variety of powerful, flexible suboperators including those dedicated to input, output, processing, interfacing with the particle system and other objects in the 3ds Max scene, animation, and more. more info...
• The visionary Data View editor lets you drag-and-drop suboperators, connect them visually and logically, set and animate parameter values, and much more. It even does automatic data type conversion. more info...
• In every custom operator you can determine exactly which parameters to make available at the Particle View level and how to format the Parameters rollout, using the Expose Parameters tools. You can also store your results as presets and/or depot operators for easy access by yourself and others. more info...
• Two powerful new Cache operators speed up feedback by caching to disk and excluding certain types of data from the cache. So, for example, you can cache animation and then continue to change other parameters to see the results instantly, without waiting for recalculation. more info...
• The ability to make history-independent operators that are faster than history-dependent operators. more info...
• Seven great new presets, including versions of several popular Blur plug-ins, come ready to use in Particle Flow right out of the box, learn from, and customize. more info...

Particle Flow Tools: Box#3 Pro gives you ultimate degree of control over your particle-based special effects. Now when your TD or producer asks for the impossible, just say, "No problem!"

What's New in the 1.5 Upgrade:

The upgrade provides four new suboperators and the Material Inheritance feature. Following is a list of new features in this upgrade:

• Object Parameter - Gets a single parameter value from any object in the scene, including modifier settins and Particle Flow operators and tests.
• Shape Control - Assigns shapes to particles, with direct control of the shape parameters for each particle, including shape's modifier settings.
• Discretizator - Makes float or integer values more discrete, reducing a wide range of values to a more manageable subset by rounding up and down.
• Color - Generates vector-type data, specifically for use in vertex-color mapping for particles.
• Material Inheritance - Improves the handling of the materials in a Particle Flow system via tools that simplify material assignment and inheritance.
• Customization - You can modify the INI file or use build-in tools to change default settings for any operator or suboperator.
• Data bridge to Box#2 Pro - Allows to fine-tune dynamics simulation properties on a per-particle basis.