#3dsMax 2025.2 features Scientific color OSL map by Fabio Cramel.
It is 32 color gradient map with sRGB based interpolation under the hood. But, what’s important is the presets. The map comes with the full sets of 39 Scientific colour maps by Fabio Crameri.
You can see the preview image here.
The color was resampled to 32 color from the original dataset with matplotlib. It is sRGB values.
If you don’t know what the perceptually uniform color maps for scientific visualization is. Please check this page.
https://www.kennethmoreland.com/color-advice/
That being said I gathered even more color maps and made another preset.
It has 371 additional maps from the following sources.
Smooth Cool Warm by Kenneth Moreland.
Viridis by Eric Firing
Plasma, Inferno by Stéfan van der Walt and Nathaniel Smith
Kindlmann, Extended Kindlmann by Kindlmann, Reinhard, and Creem.
Color specifications and designs developed by Cynthia Brewer
http://colorbrewer.org/
ColorCet by HoloViz
https://github.com/holoviz/colorcet/
cmocean by Kristen Thyng
https://github.com/matplotlib/cmocean
To use this, download the attached ScientificColorMaps.csv file and replace this file.
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2025\OSL\ScientificColorMaps.csv
As of now, the csv file has to be in the same folder as maps.
I hope there could be a way to use a different folder to add preset in the future.