Here is Fertiligen, a maxscript tool developed for The Garden, a short-movie project.

The goal of the tool, is to animate easily the growing or the withering of the vegetation with a deflector. The animation of the plants were done with morphers. The script animate the morphers.

 

Tool features:

 

     - Add as many as you want of deflector
     - Automatic adding of vegetation on the course of the deflector
     - Randomize the size of the deflector on each plant
     - Painting mode (leave the animation on the deflector road)
     - Animate the material in the same time that baking of morphers
     - Delete the old keys (morphers and materials)
     - Baker animation only where the deflector is
     - Cancel at any time the baking
     - Delete all the animations and put in an initial state
     - Log file of the errors of morphers and materials