well, you can tell i'm bored at work by all the cool new plug-ins and things i have time to find online! the latest of which is this...
http://www.darksim.com/html/dt25_description.html
which looks like the hypershade network in Maya, but this, i think, is a free standing prgram that works with any 3d program, especially max.
they also make this...
http://www.darksim.com/html/simbiont.html
which is, basically, a free procedural texturing thingy for Max.
anyone used any of these?
you'd think with all the plugings i'm finding that i'd be using them all, but i don't. weird. i seem to think Max is fine with everything it has built in.