Artist-friendly parametric modeling tool for 3ds Max
RailClone is the ultimate parametric modeling and assembly tool, with an extensive library and unmatched flexibility and simplicity for creating parametric assets to simplify scene construction. Its unique approach allows you to build sophisticated structures simply by creating visual rules, saving hours of manual work.
Overview
Are you tired of losing hours manually updating your scenes after the latest round of client notes? Would you like a faster, easier way to create parametric objects that are flexible, reusable, and easy to update? Introducing RailClone – the powerful artist-friendly parametric modeling plugin for 3ds Max.
Using RailClone, you can build everything from detailed architectural components to cinematic worlds using a simple visual rule-based workflow. Whether you're starting out with the free library, or an advanced user creating your own custom assets, RailClone offers a fast, and efficient way to create smart parametric assets for everyone.
RailClone comes in 2 versions
Try the free Lite version, or go Pro for the full experience
- RailClone plugin plus RC Slice, and RC Spline modifiers, compatible with 3ds Max 2013 - 2025 (official support from 2019) with some feature limitations.
- Native support for most popular render engines.
- Library browser with a sample library presets.
- RailClone plugin plus RC Slice, and RC Spline modifiers, compatible with 3ds Max 2013 - 2025 (official support from 2019) with NO limitations.
- Native support for most popular rendering engines.
- Library browser with an expanding library of nearly 500 presets plus the ability to add and manage your own collections.
- Includes RailClone Tools to convert to native instances.
- Includes a one year extendable Maintenance Plan with prioritized technical support, early access to beta versions, and regular updates.
- Perpetual License.
What can you do with RailClone?
From basic architectural elements, to sophisticated scene assembly, Applications for RailClone are almost limitless!
Architecture
Modeling the basic structure of buildings is easy; it's the details that take the time. Let RailClone save you hours of tedious work by automating the modeling and placement of common architectural elements.
Roofs
Generate detailed tiled and slate roofs that seamlessly conform to your architectural plans using RailClone’s presets. Complete the look by adding gutters, hips, and ridges for a realistic render.
Windows and Doors
Place windows with ease. RailClone allows for the quick adjustment of window sizes, types, and positions. Perfect for architectural visualizations!
Gutters
Easily generate gutters along the perimeter of roofs. RailClone saves time performing these repetitive but essential tasks for better renders of residential projects.
Facade Systems
Model complex façade systems, including curtain walls, spider glazing, and more, all of which can adapt to any building size.
Mechanical, Electrical, And Plumbing
Model mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems with RailClone’s powerful deformation tools. Whether it's routing ductwork, placing electrical sockets, or positioning HVAC, RailClone allows you to quickly adapt to changes in building design.
Ducting and Air Conditioning
Create ducting that adapts to complex layouts, saving time creating detailed HVAC systems for architectural or industrial renders.
Electrical
Simplify the layout of common electrical components such as pylons, sockets, lights, cable trays, switches and more using splines and the RC Spline modifier.
Water, Oil, and Gas
Model pipes and fittings along splines, including water and gas systems for residential, commercial, or industrial buildings.
Solar and Wind Systems
Visualize renewable energy systems such as solar panels on roofs, photovoltaic power stations, and wind turbines.
Public Utilities
Add public utility infrastructure to your scenes, from street lighting and signage to communications and electrical grids.
Building Elements
When a simple textured plane isn't enough to represent a wall, ceiling, or floor, RailClone has you covered. Create these elements using real geometry in seconds, thanks to the plugin's modular modeling approach
Brick Walls
Build detailed brick walls from real geometry in a variety of bonds and patterns. Use the built in presets or use the rule-based workflow to create your own!
Flooring, Tiles and Mosaics
Create floors from a closed spline with a choice of several customizable patterns and materials, or create your own designs, and even mosaics using RailClone Color.
Cladding
Quickly add cladding to building façades with RailClone. Easily randomize materials and create various patterns to suit many architectural styles.
Ceilings
Add ceiling drop ceilings plus many other styles with the ability to add parameters to adjust styles and layouts with RailClone’s parametric tools.
Lights
Arrange lighting systems using rules to customize the position, type, and configurations of lights from simple layouts to large-scale installations.
Access
Modeling access elements like stairs, elevators, and escalators can be tricky and time-consuming to model manually. With RailClone’s procedural power, you can quickly create these objects and add customizable attributes, making them easy to reuse in future projects.
Stairs
Create stairs with adjustable dimensions and configurations, from straight to spiral staircases, all in just a few clicks.
Elevators
Add elevators with ease. Using RailClone’s tools, users have created fully customizable elevator systems, with adjusting dimensions, doors, and interior details.
Escalators and Travelators
Model elevators that can adapt to any angle and length with several options for materials and types.
Scaffolding
Add access to the exterior of buildings. Use the scaffolding presets from the RailClone library or create your own custom fire escape assets.
Boardwalks
Create boardwalks that snake through your exterior renders of natural landscapes, waterfronts, or urban parks with minimal effort.
Buildings
Why spend time modeling individual building elements when you could be modeling entire buildings? RailClone is perfect for populating scenes with procedural structures that can easily adapt to any footprint. Ideal for filling the background of your renders.
Residential
Use RailClone to create parametric residential buildings with walls, windows, roofs, and more that automatically adjust to building plans.
Industrial
Quickly generate industrial buildings, or even entire commercial parks, complete with roofs, parking bays, surrounding infrastructure, and much more.
Tower
All it takes is a click on a closed spline to create towers and skyscrapers with RailClone and ParamtricLibraries’ building libraries.
Warehouses and Commercial
Create warehouse structures with parametric roof, wall, and floor layouts, simplifying large-scale projects that typically already use modular parts.
Commercial
Design commercial and retail spaces including storefronts, shelving, displays, and much more.
Specialized And Civic Spaces
Model a wide range of public and civic spaces. Whether it's laying out parks, airports, stadiums, or leisure facilities, you can quickly create custom environments using adaptable assets created with RailClone’s parametric tools.
Parks
Lay out pathways, benches, railing and more to create public parks. Combine RailClone with ForestPack to add vegetation for a complete toolkit for environment creation.
Airports
Easily visualize complex airport layouts. Create customizable conveyors, runways, seating areas, and other props and structural elements.
Stadiums
Automate the creation of stadium seating, roofing, lights, parking, and other infrastructure, ideal for large-scale sports venues.
Leisure Facilities
Design leisure centers, pools, play parks, and other public spaces using easy to edit assets.
Libraries
Render impressive library spaces with easy to customize shelving complete with books, plus tables, chairs and much more.
Roads, Civil Engineering, And Infrastructures
Quickly lay out urban infrastructure, from roads, barriers, markings, and signage to bridges, pavements, curbs, and street furniture. Drive it all from a handful of splines to make updates a cinch!
Roads, Markings, Signs and Lights
Lay out roads, highways, and add road markings, signs, and street lights with RailClone’s flexible spline-based tools, which can even follow undulating terrains.
Pavements and Curbs
Create pavements, curbs, and more adapting to the design of urban spaces with minimal effort.
Street Furniture
Easily place street furniture like benches, lights, and bins using RailClone’s easy-to-use parametric library.
Bridges
Create many types of bridges with customizable parametric elements for roads, barriers, and structural supports.
Railways
Create railway tracks that can follow a terrain to seamlessly integrate with surrounding landscapes.
How does it work?
Everything you need for artist-friendly scattering
Choose your geometry
RailClone simplifies complex modeling by using a “building block” approach. Instead of creating objects from scratch, you start with small, reusable pieces of geometry called segments. These segments are like LEGO® bricks that RailClone can arrange and multiply to build larger, more sophisticated forms.
Pick a spline
RailClone uses Splines to guide the placement of your segments. These splines define the path along which the segments, such as architectural elements or building components, are distributed. Using RailClone can be as simple as loading a preset from the free library and picking a spline.
Set the rules
Once you have your segments and spline in place, you then create a set of instructions using a simple node-based editor that determines how your geometry is assembled along the spline. Adjustments to the rules are instantly visible in the viewport, enabling real-time feedback and a fast iterative workflow.
What's new?
See what’s new in the latest release of RailClone
New Library Browser
The library browser has been rewritten from the ground up. Add 100s of objects selected from a scene and automatically build matlibs and generate thumbnails in a couple of clicks.
Password protect graphs
Share styles with confidence using the new password protect feature. Be careful though, it's so secure that there's no way to recover a password if you forget it!
Improved deformation
Use RailClone's advanced deformation modes with confidence thanks to improvements to the Flat Top and Bottom algorithm which can now be used below the path.
Introducing RailClone Slice
Prepare existing assets for use with RailClone using the new RailClone Slice modifier that divides a mesh into all the pieces you need to create common styles.
Always-on-top style Editor
Edit styles and interact with the scene at the same time thanks to the ability to keep the Style Editor open even after the RailClone object is deselected.
Link and Reroute
Make graphs much easier to read using the new Link and Reroute nodes that allow you to redirect, branch, and hide wires.
Updated asset library
RailClone 6 marks the first phase of a major overhaul of the built-in library. In this release you'll find over 160 new parametric assets in 5 collections.
Supercharged Macros
Create macros by simply copying and pasting an entire graph into a new macro tab. Segments, splines, and numeric nodes are converted to inputs automatically.
Style Editor improvements
Speed up object creation with improvements to the Style editor including shift+drag to clone nodes, import the scene selection to new nodes, better selection and much more!
Compatibility
Works with 3ds Max and most popular rendering engines
Free library of nearly 500 assets
Hundreds of ready-to-use fully procedural assets including curtain walls, cladding, roofs, railings, guttering, walls, escalators, flooring, roads, street lights, pavements, ducting, parking, fences, and much more!
Get inspired
See what’s possible when unbeatable tools meets amazing artists
Case studies
Go behind the scenes on these real-world examples
Learn how Lemons Bucket made their unusual Jellyfish visualisation
RebusFarm's new making-of by Provisual Pro includes lots of Forest Pack and RailClone
Learn about Javier Feijoo Ortiz wonderful student project
What our users are saying
Why industry experts depend on our software
Get up and running fast with detailed tutorials
We value our customers and want them to get the best out of our plugins. That's why we offer an unbeatable library of tutorials to help you learn, maximize the potential of, and seamlessly integrate your new purchases into your pipeline.
Try / Buy
Join thousands of satisfied RailClone users
- RailClone plugin plus RC Slice, and RC Spline modifiers, compatible with 3ds Max 2013 - 2025 (official support from 2019) with some feature limitations.
- Native support for most popular render engines.
- Library browser with a sample library presets.
- RailClone plugin plus RC Slice, and RC Spline modifiers, compatible with 3ds Max 2013 - 2025 (official support from 2019) with NO limitations.
- Native support for most popular rendering engines.
- Library browser with an expanding library of nearly 500 presets plus the ability to add and manage your own collections.
- Includes RailClone Tools to convert to native instances.
- Includes a one year extendable Maintenance Plan with prioritized technical support, early access to beta versions, and regular updates.
- Perpetual License.
An exclusive range of high-quality ready-to-use RailClone Pro assets, only available from ITOOSOFT.
FAQ
Answers to common questions
Can I sell assets made using RailClone?
Can I create my own assets or use them from other vendors in addition to the RailClone library?
Is there a feature compatibility list I can use to check if my renderer is supported?
Can I use RailClone Lite for my commercial projects?
What are the license restrictions for the library models and sample scenes?
How does the activation process work?
How many times can I activate a license?
Can I transfer the license to another computer?
What is the difference between standalone and network licenses?
In network license mode, a pool of licenses is available on the server, for use in any computer on the network. You only need to have licenses for the maximum number of simultaneous users expected, not for each computer where the software will be installed. Network licenses cost the same as standalone licenses.
A great advantage of the network licenses is that you only need to install and activate licenses on the server, not on the workstations. This allows you to change or upgrade the computers more easily, without having to worry about reactivating licenses.
What are the requirements to use network licenses?
Although the server software does not require a powerful system, it is mandatory that the computer hosting the license server be running and available while there are computers using the licensed software.
Do I need to purchase additional licenses for my render nodes?
Can I edit scenes on one workstation while rendering on another with a single license?
Non-interactive render modes (such as batch render, distributed rendering or backburner) don't require any license.
Can I open scenes which use the plugin on computers that don't have an active license?
Who will process my order?
How do I know the status of my order?
How can I get an invoice for my purchase?
Is VAT included in the prices shown above?
Value Added Tax (VAT, IVA, TVA, MwSt, BTW). For European Customers Only.
In some cases, a percentage of VAT will be added to the product price, depending on where you live and if you're ordering for a company or for personal use.
The final selling price will be displayed after entering all the customer's data and before the order is completed.
If you are a business customer within the European Union, be sure to enter your VAT ID in the order form, to correctly calculate the VAT percentage.
What is an Upgrade Maintenance Plan?
Automatic upgrades to the most up-to-date versions of the software, including major releases and patches.
Early access to Beta versions and the opportunity to test and suggest new features before they are included in the final release.
Premium technical support and prioritized incident management, including first response to your issues within 1 business day, and usually much faster than that.
Special subscriber-only promotions and discounts.
By default, all licenses include a one-year maintenance, but you can choose an extended plan at the time of purchase.