Release v2.00.3
3 min
Release date December 2025
CHANGE LOG
In this release we focused on rewriting Unite, making it an essential tool to manage complex scenes, optimisation and archiving. We plan to add a lot more to Unite in 2026, but wanted to release this version to our users as it's already proved invaluable to our alpha and beta testers in production.
General
General updates
Added
Support for Chaos Corona 14
Unite
Improved
Renamed plugin to 'Scene Preparation and Optimise' to reflect the major update.
Improved
Redesigned the UI. Changing the Re-Path tab to 'Optimise and Re-Path'.
Improved
Relink Tab. Changed the UX by removing function buttons and replacing them with a 'right-click' select menu.
Added
Opt / Re-Path Tab. Added dimensions column
Added
Opt / Re-Path Tab. Added size flags column to visualise the file size of bitmaps. Double-click the flag to open the dialogue box and adjust colours for the maximum and minimum size range.
Added
Opt / Re-Path Tab. Right-Click Menu. Added LOD (Levels of Detail) to reformat texture maps to smaller dimensions and file size.
Added
Opt / Re-Path Tab. Right-Click Menu. Show or hide columns - size and dimensions.
Added
Opt / Re-Path Tab. Right-Click Menu. Re-path the selected items only.
Added
Opt / Re-Path Tab. Right-Click Menu. Copy / Rename selected items. This opens the new Rename Utility tool, allowing you to change selected bitmaps as required.
Added
Opt / Re-Path Tab. Right-Click Menu. Copy Filename. Paste this into the Explorer Search to locate the file.
Added
Opt / Re-Path Tab. Right-Click Menu. Copy File Path. Paste this into Explorer to locate the file.
Added
Opt / Re-Path Tab. Right-Click Menu. Try and Select. This will select the scene geometry associated with the linked asset.
Added
Opt / Re-Path Tab. Right-Click Menu. Delete Selected Paths.
Added
Opt / Re-Path Tab. Right-Click Menu. Strip Selected Paths.
Added
Archive Tab. Added Archive Stats showing the estimated total size of archived project.
Improved
Other Max File. Added all the features above to this feature.
Fixed
Fixed bug in 2024 and below, where adding a material from the Chaos material library adds the complete file path to the file.
Improved
Archive Tab. Improved the processing of proxies when archiving speeding up the workflow.
Added
Search function to Relink and Opt / Re-Path tabs.
Added
List Order. Includes order by status, class, type, filename, size, dimensions, path.
Added
Support for Adobe Substance.
Added
Support for V-Ray Scans.
Added
Other Max Files. Relinks MatLib files. Material Library.
Forensic
Fixed
Fixed bug in 2024 and below, where adding a material from the Chaos material library adds the complete file path to the file.
Sculpt
Fixed
Detach Double Faces. Increased the solver per-object polygon limit to 1 million. Improving completion time.
Fixed
Delete Double Faces. Increased the solver per-object polygon limit to 1 million. Improving completion time.
Fixed
Attach by Object. Fixed issue with attach ID with no associated material.
Illumi
Fixed
Fixed Background/Environment Map bug, where it was loading in the wrong map.