Grow Ivy Roots: When pressed the ivy will grow until it reaches the specified age or the user clicks this button again. Lines: Select to draw Lines, Points or Both.ĭisplay Reduction: Draw every nth segment of the splines to try to speed the display performance.Īge: The ivy will stop growing when it reaches the specified age. Max Floating Variation: Varies the length of an ivy branch segment that is freely floating.Īvoid Starting at the same Point: Avoids growing more then one branch from the same position.ĭisplay Drawing: Enables/Disables the display of the ivy while its growing. Max Adhesion Distance: Maximum distance for adhesion of climb object.ĭistance Reduction Factor: If you don’t want the ivy to be so dense you can use this factor so the branches don’t grow so close to each other. Max Floating Length: Maximum length of an ivy branch segment that is freely floating. Vector Influence: Influence the Direction of the overall ivy. Smaller numbers produces a more dense ivy.īranch Parents: Number of parents per branch. This influences the grow behavior.īranching Probability: The probability of producing a new ivy root per iteration. Depending on the climb object you might need to change this value. Ivy Search Size: How far the algorithm searches for the next intersection of the ivy on the mesh, Smaller numbers result in higher resolution path but also gets much slower. Gravity Weight: Weight for the gravity vectorĪdhesion Weight: Weight for the adhesion vector. Random Weight: Weight for the random influence vector Primary Weight: Weight for the primary grow vector

This helper will be deleted once you exit the interface.Ĭlimb Object: In case the script chose the wrong object or you want to select another you can use this button to set the new Climb Object. Once you click it will try to find the closest objects around and select it as the Climb object, But it might not select the one you want if there are several near by so pay attention to the Climb Object Button it will show the name of the found object.

It will create a point helper were you want the ivy to grow from. Seed Location: Press this button to set the seed location. Create Multiple Ivy’s in the same session.The plugin does all the hard work that is the actual ivy growing and generation of the meshes, The maxscript part is just the user interface, The Materials and the Corona scatter creation. Most of the addons for max are either a plugin or a maxscript, The reason i decided to use a mixture of both was first simplicity and second I hate when i open an old project that used a plugin that is no longer available, So this plugin/script combo does not leave any trace it just creates simple geometry. This plugin is based on the excellent program created by Thomas Luft Ivy Generator. Plugin/Maxscript to generate ivy’s for 3Ds Max

An ivy generator