MCG are great but why there no new tutorials for it

[a.shahed]

As the title says I used mcg in max 2017 and it was amazing but then all was changed in 2018 versionas many nodes and names was changed and replaced by other nodes. And it's really weird that there is no  full tutorial for it and all what I found on the Internet are 5 years old .

I hope I can find more tutorial for it as it can help me alot in my work that needs many steps that I can save by making my own mcg and in two or three clicks I can finish everything 

[denisT.MaxDoctor]

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@a.shahed wrote:

... many steps that I can save by making my own mcg and in two or three clicks I can finish everything 

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yeah... it would be nice to have your own mcg to finish everything in a couple of clicks. 

[Swordslayer · Accepted solution]

The change in 2018 was supposed to be first in a series of changes but instead MCG was abandoned and never finished (at the time, the focus shifted to bringing bifrost board to max instead to do the same thing hopefully better). As it's the kind of 'this might get removed anytime' tool, you can see why hardly anyone wants to touch it.

[a.shahed]

I saw bit frost before but I believe it's more for particles and liquid stuff and can't do your own programming to make your own interface that you can feed with details like thickness, height, mesh,...etc to do procedural things. and again event bit frost tutorials are rare to find as all that I found from searching is new tutorials for OSL 

[Swordslayer]

Nah, you'd be able to do the same thing with bifrost graphs as with MCG, modifiers with UI (like in the linked video, that one shows something like a scatter modifier but you can also use other nodes to construct meshes from the ground up), the thing is that no one will tell you if bifrost board or some other way to work with bifrost graphs will ever be available inside max. Doesn't change the fact that MCG is a dead end.

[a.shahed]

so in another way we can say that even bit frost will be dead like mcg but this time before the release O_o

[Swordslayer]

Bifrost is alive in maya, it's just hard to say whether or not it will be in max too, eventually.

[a.shahed]

thank you my friend for your help 🙂