This is really impressive. Gotta say, I’m pretty excited for deformable models!

While i admire your efforts in this Treewyrm, i have no understanding of it and don’t wish to, I’m with Schmackbolzen on this regarding the question why?

There are plenty of us, me included who do not have MAX, and have no intention of getting it. The advantage at the moment with those of us who mess with sur files is that the sur tool that Schmackbolzen wrote works for a large percentage of models, both static and those with parts. While I agree a MAX plugin and exporter will be nice for those that have it, plenty of us don’t.

If any upgrades need doing, the two of you should discuss what needs fixing (if anything) and update accordingly, so everyone can use the sur utility, instead of limiting any major upgrades to MAX users only.

The Artillery ship with the engine trail fx added

Seem it went offtopic but anyway.

Looks nice, it would be even nicer to have a track view/curve editor, and in case of color editing a nice gradient preview below 🙂 Also where’s pairing window? I’ve been simplifying things a lot by having things like several instances of same emitter node in effect but each one spawning different particles. Or some weirder stuff like having multiple emitters for beam to draw lines.

Also I’m curious about MeshAppearance, is it really and hopelessly broken or had I missed something?

If we would have used existing sources, then yes. But since this is not the case and it has been a lot work plus the particle system is used also elsewhere, we have to say no. There is no benefit for us in this. For FLHook I have shared all I found, since it is a community project.

I have to agree that there is a lack of sources for a lot of tools, but I can understand that people don’t want to release it if they don’t see a benefit in this. There are not a lot of active programmers.