New MCG Nodes and Tools in Extension 2

The following nodes, compounds, and tools are new for MCG in 3ds Max 2016 Extension 2.

3ds Max Nodes

• AtTimeContext

3ds Max Shapes

• LerpACurveInShapeObject

Array

• TransposeArray

Control flow

• BreadthFirstSearch

Geometry - Edges

• GetEdge
• EdgeMesh
• EdgeIndex
• VertexEdgeLookup

Geometry - Matrix

• FlipMatrixBasis

Geometry - Plane

• PlaneFromPositionDirection

Geometry - Trimesh

• FilterVertices
• MeshElements
• FaceToElementsMapping
• SplitMeshByFace
• SplitMeshIntoPolygons

Implicit parameters

• Shape: Matrix

Inputs

• Input: Spline
• Input: ShapeObject

Maps/Bitmaps

• CreateBitmap
• ConstructBitmap
• LoadBitmapFromFile
• SaveBitmapToFile

Octree

• ClosestVertices

OpenVDB

• GetGridNames
• GetGridTypes
• GetGridValueTypes
• GetGridVertices
• GetGridAsFloatArray
• GetGridAsSampledFloatArray
• GetGridAsVector3Array
• GetGridAsSampledVector3Array
• CreateNewOpenVDBFile
• WriteOpenVDBFile
• PutFloatArrayAsGrid
• PutVector3ArrayAsGrid
• GetGridDepth

Outputs

• Output: shape

Parameter nodes

• Parameter: Signal
• Parameter: String
• Parameter: Asset
• Parameter: Color

Spline Operators

• CreateEmptySpline
• CreateSplineFromKnots
• CreateSplineFromBuffers
• SplineSegmentCount
• SplineVerticesBuffer
• SplineSegmentIndices
• SplineTangentsBuffer
• SplineSegmentTypes
• SetSplineSegmentTypes
• SplineTangentIndices
• SplineMaterialIDs
• SetSplineMaterialIDs
• SplineSegmentsToElementsMapping
• SplineElements
• SplitSplineBySegment
• CombineSplines
• CanGetSplineFromNode
• SplineFromNode
• CreateEditableSpline

Compounds

• AddLines
• AppendIf
• ApplyHSLColor
• ArrowMesh
• AutoSmoothSpline
• AutoSmoothSplines
• BlendChromatic
• BlendNColors
• BoolToINT
• BreadthFirstSearchFromStartIndices
• BreadthFirstSearchVisitAll
• CachedValueWithHash
• CacheOctreeMod
• CacheValueUntilControlChanged
• CartesianProduct
• CFDAdvectPoints
• CFDArrows
• CFDColorMeshFromVectorData
• CFDColorSplineFromVectorData
• CFDColorVerticesUniformly
• CFDInterpolateVectorDataFromSamplePoints
• CFDPositionsAndVectorData
• CFDSplineMaterialIDAt
• ChromaFromRGB
• ChromaFromSL
• ChromaFromSV
• CircleSpline
• ClampIntMax
• ClosestOtherPointIndex
• ClosestPointOnSpline
• ClosestPointOnSplines
• ComputeFirstAutoSmoothTangent
• ComputeInnerAutoSmoothTangents
• ComputeLastAutoSmoothTangent
• ConcatenateValuesAsString
• ConditionalNormWithCache
• ConstructBasisFromPrimaryAndBias
• Contains
• CreateAndCacheOctree
• CreateSplineFromPointsAndTangents
• CreateSplinesFromAlignedVectorArrays
• Cyan
• DisplayMessage
• DivideBy100Float
• EdgeA
• EdgeB
• EdgeCount
• EdgeFaceIndex
• EdgeToLine
• EdgeVisible
• EulerFromQuaternion
• EulerFromRotationMatrix
• ExtractVectors
• FaceEdges
• FaceIndexBufferIndices
• FaceIndices
• FilterCFDMeshVertices
• FilterColorByHue
• FilterOverlappingPoints
• FindConnectedLines
• FindLineConnectivity
• FindSharedEdges
• FloatLerp3
• FloatLerp3MidpointGamma
• GaussianWeights
• GenerateBitmapFromFunc
• GenerateSplineFromVelocity
• GenerateVertices
• GetAbsVelocities
• GetCenterOfMass
• GetJSONArrayByName
• GetMeshVerticesWeights
• GetPVData
• GetVectors
• GetVelocity
• GetWeights
• GreaterThanOrEqualToZero
• HSLFromRGB
• HSVFromRGB
• HueFromRGB
• IfArrayNonEmpty
• IfGreaterThanOrEqualToZero
• IfGreaterThanZero
• IndexOfValue
• InterpAbsVelocityAtEachPoint
• InterpAbsVelocityAtEachVertex
• InterpChannelAtEachPoint
• InterpChannelAtEachVertex
• InterpChannelWeighed
• InterpMeshVerticesVelocityWeighted
• InterpVelocityAtEachPoint
• InterpVelocityWeighed
• InvertColor
• IsNullFix
• IsSplineClosed
• IsSplineSegmentBezier
• IsUVChannelAvailable
• IsVertexColorChannelAvailable
• JoinTwoSplines
• JSONToInt32Array
• JSONToVector3Array
• KeepEveryNthVertex
• KeepNVertices
• LerpPosOnACurve
• LerpTangentOnACurve
• LightnessFromRGB
• MapChannelWithoutIndices
• MapVector3
• MaxValueFromVector3
• MeshOpenEdges
• MinValueFromVector3
• ModuloArrayCycler
• NormalizeFloatWithFloatArray
• OneMinus
• Parse2DStringArrayToFloat
• ParseCSVData
• ParseStringArrayToFloat
• PlaneFrom3Points
• PointsOnACurveRandomized
• pushPOP
• pushPopperArray
• QuaternionFromEuler
• RemoveEnds
• RemoveValues
• RescaleVectorsFromMinMax
• RGBFromHSL
• RGBFromHSV
• RGBFromHue
• RotationMatrixFromEuler
• RungeKuttaIntegration
• SampleShapeObjectToSplines
• ScaleFloat
• ScaleFloatFromZeroToOne
• ScaleVector
• SecondaryColorValueFromHue
• SetPerVertexDataChannel
• SetPerVertexDataChannelByIndex
• SetSplineClosed
• SetUniformSmoothingGroups
• SpliceAlternateElements
• SplineControls
• SplineFromFunction
• SplineFromMeshEdges
• SplineFromMeshSlice
• SplineFromSegment
• SplineGenerateSegmentTangents
• SplineGenerateTangentIndices
• SplineInterpolate
• SplineKnots
• SplineLength
• SplineSegmentControls
• SplineSegmentInterpolate
• SplineSegmentKnotA
• SplineSegmentKnotB
• SplineSegmentKnots
• SplineSegmentLength
• SplineSegmentTangentA
• SplineSegmentTangentB
• SplineSegmentTangents
• SplineSegmentType
• SplinesFromShapeObject
• SplineToTriMesh
• SplitInChunks
• StoreDataInPVDC
• StoreDataInPVDCAtChannels
• SubArrayAt
• Third
• TransferPerVertexDataByIndex
• TransformPoints
• TransformSpline
• TriMeshToSpline
• ValidIndices
• ValueFromRGB
• VecNegateUnless
• VecPerpTo2Vecs
• Vector3ToDegrees
• Vector3ToRadians
• Vector3Zero
• VectorFromArray
• VectorLengths
• WeightedVectorSum
• WeightsByDistance
• WriteCSVDataAsOpenVDB
• Yellow

Tools

• ApplyUVAsColor
• ApplyUVAsHSLColor
• ApplyUVAsHSLGradient
• ApplyUVAsHSLGradientWithMidpoint
• FilterMeshColorsByHue
• CFDColorVerticesMod
• CFDImportData
• CFDInterpOnSpline
• CFDKeepNVertices
• CFDSplineNode
• CFDSplinePaths
• CFDVelocityField
• CFDVertexPaintChannel
• CFDVertexPaintVelocity
• MCG_Donut
• MCG_MeshEdgesToSpline
• MCG_SinWave