Is There A Plugin For This?

[Michael J. Brown]

I need to show different pieces of furniture in alternate color/material options within the context of a website. Clients need to be able to simply click on (or hover over) a color swatch in order to change the color/material of specific scene objects in a static view. (similar to this: http://www.ford.com/suvs/explorer/gallery/colors-and-360-views/)

 

Is there either a plugin for MAX or a 3rd party software that I can use to build this functionality? Or will it just have to be done the caveman way of having separate jpgs display whenever the user clicks on a different color/material option.

 

 

Thanks guys!

[Justin Hunt]

Not exactly what you want, but pretty interesting tool http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/colorway/

 

http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=3&t=90723

[RyderSK]

Color way is only for Cinema and Modo (for now).

 

But there is Motiva COLIMO, which does the same (and was copied by The Foundry to some point basically).

[phongluu]

I really appreciate it.

Lester's WP-DownloadManager does a pretty good job!http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-downloadmanager/

[Michael J. Brown]

I may end up just going with this company to do the back-end work for me: http://www.chameleonpower.com/

 

Here's one of their clients: http://www.alure.com/home-design-software/

[M V]

I would have also suggested COLIMO, which now supports V-Ray in Max.

[Michael J. Brown]

I would have also suggested COLIMO, which now supports V-Ray in Max.

 

 

Thanks. That solution looks (at first glance, anyway) to yield better looking results than Chameleon Power.

[RyderSK]

I don't think you're comparing comparable.

 

COLIMO is tool that using self-generated(but rendered) masks allows you to do post-render alterations to materials that would otherwise not be possible. It works in conjunction with your native DCC(3dsMax) app. This can help you generate your content (color and material variations) in easy way, which would otherwise be quite painful to organize and render.

 

That company (Chameleon) you linked is only group of people writting bespoke app&solutions on presenting your content. Depending on how you want to present the varied material options to your client, you might need both of those solutions.

 

It's apples and oranges.

[Nic H]

you are developing software to do this?

have you heard of multimattes and photoshop

[notamondayfan]

Sounds like you need to know HTML 5 (or similar), or dare I say it Flash?!