Sketchrender Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I am looking to get a layer management plugin . I have big models with lots for Building, and would like to group them under each building type. Would prefer not to us container or xrefs in this case. Anybody recommend a plugin please. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umesh Raut Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Hey, The native layer manager is enough to do the job IMO, have been managing dwg's and other such layered files with it without any difficulty so far. Of course if its the magnitude that you are talking (and may be really big big site/s) then I may not know. But its a very strong plugin in its own self. Hope I am to the point here Umesh Raut 3dviz.in (under cons) Mumbai, India Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Parente Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 you could also try The Onion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfgiroux Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Hi ... I personnally use the outliner script created by P Janssen found here http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/outliner ... It's pretty much the same thing as the outliner found in Maya but there is also a ''layer manager'' tab that I find really useful when working with big scenes ... Plus the outliner itself is pretty much a drag and drop type thing ... hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Hi ... I personnally use the outliner script created by P Janssen found here http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/outliner ... It's pretty much the same thing as the outliner found in Maya but there is also a ''layer manager'' tab that I find really useful when working with big scenes ... Plus the outliner itself is pretty much a drag and drop type thing ... hope this helps I have looked at this script before and thought about adding it to my workflow but I have always been hesitant since I don't know how it plays with others who may not be using this as part of their workflow. Does it cause problems if someone opens a file that this script has been used they don't have Outliner installed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfgiroux Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Hi Travis, from what I see it dosen't cause any problems with other users or machine that don't have the outliner installed .. in fact I have one or two machines in my farm where I didn't install the script and the scene works fine .. I just go by the ''regular'' layer manager in that case. I still think it is a very useful script, specially for people like me who used to work with maya. hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Thanks. May give it a try later this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buchhofer Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I've used it on a couple occasions when i've needed to do nested layers or else go insane, and i found it to be pretty nice. It can get SLOW with a lot of objects though, and there seem to be a few quirks about it in general, but it doesn't cause any problems with the file, nor leave any strange information floating around in it, so the file opens fine on others machines (Albeit now my naming scheme for layers didn't make much sense without the nesting that i'd done with outliner.) Small things. in the end it was a net positive for my particular set of jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buchhofer Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Another option that might be possible to look at, though its a bit more/different than layers was LPM, I found using that to keep track of various visibility sets was nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 +1 for Outliner, I use it every day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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