Introducing X-Tools 3.9.6 Shareware Edition - The Official VersionTraining Videos now available online. X-Tools Intro -
X-Tools Install -
X-Tools What's New.
X-Tool Videos - (Just these for now, but I'll add more later)
X-Tools Home Page - for Zip and GZIP downloads and complete docs.
Contact Author - My Thanks for all previous Feedback, but please contact me through my own website.
X-Tools is Shareware, but I never force the issue. Please consider donating.
Donate to X-Tools. It 's never too late.
This version adds a lot of new features. I'm currently trying to complete my feature list before a planned conversion to Python in version 4.0 Alas there were too many, so I focused on the Polygon Tools and will finish updating the NURB and General Tools in 3.9.7.
Here are some of the New Features:- Expanded and Updated Find Command function found in the Help Menu.
- Center Selection, (in the Center Pivot pop-up menu) now handles shapes as well as components
- Wireframe can be toggled On or Off during sculpting.
- Sculpt Tool UI has access to all 6
sculpting reference vectors: Normal, View, First Normal, X, Y, and Z.
The sculpt symmetry functions correctly mirror the reference vector if
needed. Wireframe can be
- Delete Half added to Delete History pop-up menu.
- Extract Half and Duplicate Half added to Extract pop-up menu.
- Delete Unused Shaders added to New Shader pop-up menu.
- Separate on Loop added to Select Loop/edge and Extract pop-up menu.
- Reverse Edge Direction added to Select Loop pop-up menu.
- Merge to Nearest Vertice added to merge pop-up menu.
- Select Hard Edge or Soft Edge added to Component Finder, (formerly Special Comp.).
- Select Edges with faces that have flipped or opposing normals added to Component Finder.
- Poly Crease Function added to Split Loop pop-up menu.
A Complete Description of What's New and Cool
What is X-Tools?
X-Tools is a toolbox script that offer fast access to the most power Maya tools while adding a few features of its own. The real power of X-Tools comes from the buttons which are context sensitive, meaning they do different, (but related) functions in different selection modes.
X-Tools 3.9, features a one window interface and buttons that remember the last selected option.
Other New Features adding since 3.9 include:
- The User Shelf now has two tabs
- A General Tool UI
- improved Align to Selection button (2008 or higher)
- One Window Interface - everything has been squeezed into one window.
- Tool Buttons that remember last selected option
- Improved Sculpt Tool Box
- New Shape Primitive Button
- Context Sensitive Combine/Mirror Button
- A Component Finder capable of selecting many types of geometry.
Installation:Installing X-Tools is simple. X-Tools comes with own Installation file. Just unpack the download to the desktop, start Maya, then open the filed called xtools_installer.ma that's inside the X-Tools install folder. It will do all the necessary installation and ask you to restart Maya at the end.
Bugs:X-Tools has also gone through some extensive bug testing. This version was tested on all 3 platforms and versions 7.0 to 2009. This version is pretty solid. A few of the new functions will not work in Maya version 7.0 - sorry. The start-up window display is little "off" on Mac or Linux.
Future:This was going to be the last version before converting to Python, but there was so much to do, I need a version 3.9.7. There might be a 3.9.8 version if anything needs to be fixed.
The focus of 4.0 will be the conversion to Python.
Enjoy and Thanks
.
Top Rated 
