Machine3D
Plugins for 3ds Max,
built in production.
Modeling, sculpting and FX tools we made for our own shots, now ready for yours.
The plugins
Tools that earn their place in the pipeline
Each plugin installs and updates through M3D Tools and runs in 3ds Max 2025 and 2027.
MSpheres
Start with one sphere and click to grow a skeleton. MSpheres bridges the links and skins the whole chain into one watertight mesh.
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FastSculpt
Pull, Add/Subtract, Relax and Rotate brushes that split edges under the brush as you go, so you never subdivide first. Around 64 fps on a 162k-face head.
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PaintClay
Every brush stroke lays down spheres, boxes, tori or tets along an editable spline. Mesh them as shapes or melt them into one smooth OpenVDB blob.
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VoxelPainter
Paint three or six walls of a box and VoxelPainter carves the volume where they agree, like cutting a block from stencils, then bakes it to .vdb.
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VelVDB
Three bakers in one license: MeshVel turns meshes and splines into flow, Noise Field makes procedural wind and swirls, and Merge layers them into one field.
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M3D Noise
Buya, Luka, Electric, Fire, Voronoi and 29 more noise patterns in a map that works just like Max's own Noise, with animation that loops.
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Free for everyone
Space warps that drive particles with velocity fields (your own VelVDB bakes, or VDBs from Phoenix, Houdini and EmberGen), and a better color picker.
VDB Force
A free space warp that reads a velocity .vdb, or a whole sequence, and pushes each particle by the flow at its position.
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M3D Field Force
A free space warp that applies a Noise Field, MeshVel, Merge or VDB Force straight to your particles, updating as you edit the source.
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CoolPicker M3D
A free replacement for Max's color dialog: RGB, HSV, CMYK and Lab sliders, a color mixer and screen picking, now color-management aware.
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From checkout to viewport
Buy
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Install M3D Tools
The Tool Manager installs your plugins for each version of Max and keeps them up to date.
Render anywhere
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Plugins and tools for 3ds Max, built and used in production.
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