My friends and I were planning to make a fly through animation of a city using 3ds Max but we wanted to finish one as soon as possible. The problem was, we lack enough 3d building structures to populate the city we are visualizing to create, so a Google search for free downloads of 3ds Max building models was in progress. Luckily, we somehow formulated a good keyword search that lead us to this really amazing 3ds Max tool. This is the Building Generator created by Tyson Ibele, a 3d animator from Wellington, New Zealand. It is a 3ds Max tool which creates procedural buildings from a list of user-defined settings. The best part about it is that it is totally free to download and use.
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Although the 3d building models it produces don't stand a chance against architecturally designed buildings of today in terms of the looks, it automatically, without much work, creates multiple 3d models of buildings that could populate an entire city. This feature alone is good enough for us to complete the fly through animation. The buildings also has details on them, including machine rooms and water tanks on its roof decks, which are complete enough to make them look like real building structures.
Below is a sample fly through animation from Youtube using the 3ds Max Free Building Generator:
Below is a video showing this free 3ds Max tool in action:
You can download the Building Generator Maxscript free on Tyson Ibele's website. To get new information and updates on this 3ds Max tool, you can go to the CGTalk Forums. The list of its features can be seen here.
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