Particle Spline for Max 6.0
Particle Spline for Max 4.0
Source Code



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.


NOTE MAX3 FILES WILL NOT LOAD INTO MAX4 PARTICLE sPLINES IN IT. THE PARTICLES SPLINE WILL HAVE A STAND IN OBJECT IN THEIR PLACE, sorry :(.

Particle Spline is a spline object that uses a particle system as a reference. Basically it draws a spline between all the particles based on its age.


Add - brings up a dialog that allows you to bring in a particle system

Spline Options - determines how the spline is interpolated.

Bugs - lots of them
Lots of screen update bugs, you need to step through a frane at a time to get the correct spline Seems to be missing first set of particles released
Does not work with the lofter not sure why
Need a stand in object when there is no particle system


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

Peter Watje