Version History

Fixed an issue in installer where installing both 32 and 64 bit versions to the same system confuses the installer and causes it to show a false "already installed" warning..

Installer: Default install path is now 3ds max installation path that's read from the registry. Please note that this is not a fail-safe method (such as multiple max installation cases).
Documentation: minor fixes to documentation.

New version numbering system: from now on the version numbers of the plugin will be in the format [major].[minor].[build_number].[max_version].
- major: will be incremented with major operational changes in the plugin
- minor: will be updated with minor operational changes and bug fixes in the plugin. If the changes are non-operational, only the build_number will be updated.
- build_number: This value will be incremented automatically with each build. When there's only non-operational changes in the plugin (such as new installer, updates in document etc), only the build_number will be changed.
- max_version: This indicates for which 3ds max this plugin is compiled for. So if you want cc v3.4 for 3ds max 7, then you need to download v3.4.x.7
Added 64 bit support for 3ds max 9. Please make sure that you grab the correct installer with 9_x64 letters in the name. (ex. "ColorCorrect_v3.4.74.9_x64_Beta4.exe" )

This version does not have any operational changes, but source code is slightly modified to work with new compilers. Please report any misbehaviors you may encounter.

This version is available only for 3ds max6 and released as a fix candidate to the problem that's caused by the Intel compiler issues of the previous version. Thanks goes to Scott Kirvan for compiling this for me. Please let me know if you encounter any problems with this version too. Sorry for the late fix.

Workflow and parameters are re-designed from groundup.
All calculations are now done in floating point precision and range. That means ColorCorrect is now HDRI friendly.
HSL space is implemented in addition to existing HSV space. This makes it easier to do Black -> Color -> White colorizations.
All of the parameters (including the sub-textures) are now accesible through max script.
Alpha channel modification parameters are added.
Gamma parameter is added.
pre- and post-process operations are added, namely: mono, invert, upper-lower clamping (with normalization)
RGB channel mapping can now map any of the HSV, HSL, dry and wet RGBA channels to RGBA channels. Previously only wet RGB was available.
ColorCorrect is now defer-loaded. Which means plugin will not be loaded into memory by 3ds max unless it's used or really needed.
Switched to a new version number scheme. This scheme uses 4 numbers with the last one being the max SDK with which the plugin is compiled. MAJOR.MINOR.REV.MAXSDK. MAJOR number changes with structural changes, MINOR number is changes with new features, REV changes with bug fixes or changes which does not change the operation of plugin, MAXSDK is the major version of 3dsmax for which this plugin is compiled. So 3.0.2.6 means ColorCorrect 3.0.2 for 3ds max 6.

It is a re-compilation version for MAX4. Nothing functional has been changed since 2.03.

This version is a port to MAX 3.0. There is a small difference from 2.01 though: in material editor if there is no source image is specified, a black CC text is shown in the top of the sample. This helps you to find CC texture in the texture browser if the "icon view" mode is choosen. If you have specified a source texture, on the other hand, this text is removed. Also please note that in rendering you'll NOT see the text.

This is a bug fix version. Color Correct 2.0 user interface crashes the systems having the version 6.0 of the Visual C++ run time libraries. It is due to a bug in Color Correct but it only gets harmful with the new version of run time libraries.

Color Correct v2.0 is just a re-compilation of version 1.0 for MAX 2.0. This version is not compatible with MAX 1.x. Some added functionality allows you to drag-n-drop maps between the slots.