W3D Tools & 3DS Max 2023 Exporter 1.9.0

Contents

This pack contains:

• W3D Exporter for 3DS Max 2023 - New tools for Max 2023 to export W3D files from
• W3D Viewer -  A model viewer for W3D files
• W3D Dump - A tool to open W3D files and see the contents
• The source code to to the W3D Exporter, wdump.exe and memorymanager.dll

InformationThe new w3d tools require 3DS Max 2023 to work.

The new w3d tools are 100% compatible with files made in Max 8 and 2017 with the old w3d tools. When you load an old file, WWSkin data is converted to Max skin data automatically. All the material settings and export flags will be read in and converted as well.

Features from the old plugins not currently supported:

• Animation compression
• NPatches (hardware that actually supports this feature has long since vanished and current versions of Renegade no longer support it)
• Export with Std Mtls
• Create Settings Floater

Full documentation can be found here: https://w3dhub.com/forum/documentation/tools/3dsmax/

How to Install

• Download the files!
• Copy the the files in the "W3D Exporter - Max 2023" folder to your 3DS Max 2023 directory. Default: "C\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2023\Plugins"
  • Run 3DS Max and the tools will load with it!
• For W3D viewer and W3D Dump, they can be run directly from the folder that they are already in, so they can be copied anywhere.
  • Note: If you have any issues with any missing files, you should install these Visual C++ Redistributables from Microsoft: https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x86.exe and  https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
• There is a separate readme included for the source code.

Credits

• jonwil
• Sir_Kane
• cfehunter
• The Assembly Armada
• Maraneshi
• CMDBob
• Yah-Nosh
• General Camo
• Romanov
• ChAoS