flowstate 1.5.1

• Added saved, DPI-aware panel scaling from 75–250%; replaces the panel Macro Search button.
• Fixed crashes when moving modifiers up or down the stack.
• Preserved modifier local data and undo when reordering.
• Fixed parameter targeting and independent expansion for duplicate modifiers.
• Preserved scroll position after parameter edits.
• Fixed repeated edits on shared instances and invalid numeric input.

Includes builds for 3ds Max 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027, plus the v1.5.1 configurator.

Install: copy the matching FlowState.gup to your Max plugins folder, drag flowstate_config.ms into a viewport, and restart Max.

flowstate 1.5.0

Flowstate is completely free and open source for all kinds of usage but Gumroad purchases (only 10$) are much appreciated! Thanks for your support!

Small patch to fix categorization issues. Thanks to Daniel Swahn for reporting this issue and suggested improvements.

Added

• Force Reload button for scanning for new OSL entries without restart.

Fixed

• Native maps can no longer be miscategorized as OSL. Only classes actually registered by the OSL plugin (OSL_ internal names) receive folder-scan categories, so the standard Composite map no longer collides with Composite.osl.
• Stock Autodesk materials no longer show empty or junk categories. Their live ClassDesc reports an empty or meaningless token (Blend/Composite: empty, Architectural: "Material", Physical: "Physical"), so category resolution now falls back to the class directory and files them the way the browser does: General for the compound and modern materials, Scanline for Standard (Legacy), Raytrace, Architectural, and Advanced Lighting Override.

Changed

• Categories now mirror the Slate material browser. Classes that publish IMaterialBrowserEntryInfo (the browser's own grouping source) show exactly that group; legacy stock maps that predate the interface have their 1990s category tokens translated to the browser's current groups (General, Scanline) instead of showing raw COMP/COLMOD/2D/ENV strings.

flowstate 1.4.1

Flowstate is completely free and open source for all kinds of usage but Gumroad purchases (only 10$) are much appreciated! Thanks for your support!

Added

• Persistent search and panel modes

Compatibility

• Verified Release builds against the 3ds Max 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027 SDKs.

flowstate 1.4.0

Flowstate is completely free and open source for all kinds of usage but Gumroad purchases (only 10$) are much appreciated! Thanks for your support!

Added

• Added a Favorites filter that composes with the Materials, Maps, and Scene filters.
• Added automatic palette compaction for small lists
• Added a compact header menu
• Added persistent brick reordering with middle-button drag.
• Added debounce to bitmap preview (eliminates any possible lag when previewing high resolution bitmaps)

Changed

• Right-click favorites are sorted alphabetically and grouped at the start of the normal results list.
• Brick favorites remain visible in the brick strip and keep their diamond indicator, but no longer duplicate themselves in the Favorites filter or at the start of the results list.
• Pinning or unpinning an item now preserves the current selection and scroll position.
• Brick controls now use left-click to activate, left-drag to create/drop, middle-click to remove, middle-drag to reorder, and right-click to rename.

Fixed

• Eliminated duplicate favorites such as repeated Composite maps by using stable class and scene identities, deduplicating all favorite views, and migrating legacy saved entries.
• Fixed compact lists briefly scrolling or snapping when keyboard navigation reached the last item.
• Fixed the scrollbar reappearing on the final row of a list that did not actually overflow.
• Fixed the results list jumping back to the start after pinning an item.
• Fixed a 3ds Max crash caused by releasing a brick drag over FlowState's own controls. FlowState windows and the preview popup are never probed as Max drag-and-drop targets.
• Made brick capture cancellation and button recreation safe during reorder, removal, palette deactivation, and interrupted mouse gestures.

Compatibility

• Verified Release builds against the 3ds Max 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027 SDKs.

flowstate 1.3.1

Flowstate is completely free and open source for all kinds of usage but Gumroad purchases (only 10$) are much appreciated! Thanks for your support!

flowstate 1.3.1

• Fixes to LINK button and cleaned up stale info from README.
• LINK does not lock U and V tile values anymore
• LINK can work with V-RayBitmap too

flowstate 1.3

flowstate 1.3

First public release of flowstate, a native workflow collection for 3ds Max 2024-2027.
I've only tested it for 2026-2027 versions.

What's included

• Floating Modifier Stack with typing, scrubbing, pinned parameters, multi-object editing and modifier controls
• Shader Search Utility for materials, maps, scene shaders and OSL with pins, bricks, previews and drag/drop
• Direct shader/map drops into SME, objects, material slots and exact Compact Material Editor map slots
• Configurable Mouse Slider Macros for screen grab, timeline, parameters, opacity and UV islands
• Auto Orbit modes with Hotkey Editor actions
• Smooth Bridge and F2 Extend modeling commands
• Loop Subdivision and Normalize Poly modifiers

Install

1. Download FlowState-1.3.0-Max2024-2027.zip.
2. Open the folder matching your 3ds Max version and copy FlowState.gup into the Max plugins folder.
3. Drag flowstate_config.ms into a viewport.
4. Restart 3ds Max.

Each Max version ships as one native FlowState.gup with no companion plugin files or extra Qt runtime.