I dont know that is a good idea to start this new thread but i have to do for myself and for all members here. I see some names of softwares and plugins for 3ds max but i dont know for what i can use them and should we have it in our workflow.

*Edit by +Varnished:* I added a few and organized into categories. We should keep a nice list of all the programs we use in our projects.

Plants/Trees/Environments
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TreeStorm -- Tree and foliage generator, with wind simulation
SpeedTree -- Better than TreeStorm, but more expensive
IvyGenerator -- Generates nice looking Ivy
Dreamscape -- Environment generator
Vue 6 Xtreme -- General environment generator/renderer

Fluid/Dynamics
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RealFlow -- Fluid and dynamics simulator
OceanWaves -- Nice water/wave model generator

Renderers
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Vray -- Fast photoreal renderer
Brazil -- High quality photoreal renderer
Maxwell -- Ultra realistic light renderer

Texture/UVW Unwrapping
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Uvlayout -- Unwrapping tool
BodyPaint 3D -- Viewport texture painting, UV editing
DeepUV -- UV Texturing software
CrazyBump -- Displacement/normal/occlusion/spec mapping tool

General
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PolyBoost -- Texture painting, UVW Editing, selection and modeling enhancements
HairTrix--It is a plugin and do hair and fur effect.

Video Editing

Adobe Premier - High end PC editor
Final Cut Pro - High end Mac editor
Sony Vegas - Cheaper than the other 2 but still very good (so I've heard)

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