This pluggin is what I define as charityware and can be freely distributed. If
you find it useful make what you feel as an appropriate donation to your
favorite charity. You cannot charge or make any money from this routine by
reselling or bundling them with another package/cd/web page without my
permission.
To install this routine just copy the files into your 3ds Max plugin directory.
Linked XForn+ is the most basic of skeletal deformation you can get. It is
basically a spiffed up version of the Linked XForm modifier. All bones in the
system are equally weighted and have a radial influence from the center of the
bone. This is a fairly easy modifier to use just apply it and hit the Add
button to add bones to the system (NOTE do this in frame 0) and use the Remove
button to remove buttons from the system (NOTE do this in frame 0).
Bugs
None but always add and remove bones at frame 0.
Removal of the first bone causes strangeness
Cloning the boned object cause a crash
Potenial Future Features
Weights and Falloff for individual bones
Ellipitical falloff instead of radial
Individual control of each vertices' weight
Output to file of each vertices weight
Note this utility has not been fully tested in a production enviroment so use
at your own risk. If you encounter any problems please contact me at