NodeJoe is a schematic material editor realized as
a plugin for 3dsmax™ that
allows you a quick, clear and easy way of working with textures and materials.
It uses the 3dsmax™ internal data structures to provide compatibility
with all the materials and textures that work with 3dsmax™.
The plugin provides an intuitive, clearly arranged graphical user interface to create, analyse and modify materials and textures within 3dsmax™. The working area is zoomable and draggable, presenting an interactive preview of materials, including all submaterials and subtextures, as well as showing their dependencies between each other. You can create connections between different materials by "drawing" directly on to the surface. The integrated automatic layout provides a clearly aligned diagram - at your fingertips. Nodejoe will give you a clear overview of the relationship between existing materials within the current scene.
Key features:
- intuitive, fast and fun to work with (like drawing lines between materials)
- seamless 3dsmax integration (as external window or internal viewport)
- full drag'n'drop support between NodeJoe and 3dsmax
- fully customizable material pool
- unlimited zoomable and draggable views
- automatic layout
- support for materials, textures, controllers (including all animatable, wireable parameters, MR-Connection, ...)
- support for any 3dsmax-compatible renderer
- (goodlooking) docking window system
- customizable shortcuts
- support for multiple dockable/floating preview windows
- context-menu-based linking (the maya style)
- 3dsmax files with NodeJoe data inside can be used (and rendered) on systems/rendernodes without NodeJoe installed.
- no limitation concerning the number of material, views, ...
- and, and, and ....
NodeJoe was developed by designers for designers. It provides the functionality that we have always missed during our daily working with the materials inside 3dsmax™. NodeJoe has grown up - after a long period of developement and extensive worldwide beta-testing - into a intuitive professional tool that will boost your creativity and will change the work with complex materials into pure pleasure!
NodeJoe 1.1 can be purchased here.
If you want to get an idea of NodeJoe, you should take a look at our quick-tutorials and the feature-list or download the Demo Version. Comments by other users, known bugs, feature requests and further information can all be found at the public forum.
While developing NodeJoe it has become a tool that we ourself would not want to miss. Have a look at it!