Using Goz between Zbrush and 3ds Max wipes Vray settings

aintnobody

Hi,

So when you use Goz to send an object back and forth between Zbrush and 3ds Max, it wipes all Vray settings and sets the renderer back to the default Mental Ray settings.

Is there any way to prevent that ?

Manually importing and exporting the mesh as OBJ as an alternative wouldn't be good because it breaks my mesh into UV islands and requires manually re-welding all the vertices where my UV seams are every time.

Eric Chadwick

Have you tried saving your render settings before GoZ, then reloading them after GoZ?

I'm using saved render settings here with V-Ray and it works great, loads everything back in. I'm not using with with GoZ though, just across multiple Max files.

aintnobody

Well, I've saved my Vray settings in the maxstart file, but there is a way to save the render settings and load them in a file ? How ?

Eric Chadwick

Render Presets
http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-FD87D0DB-0935-4357-811B-582C2316A971

aintnobody

Awesome, thanks! Can these saved settings work across different versions of Max and Vray ? Let's say next year I want to replace my machine and I'll be reinstalling all my software and they might be the newer versions, will loading up older render settings work then ?

Eric Chadwick

Not sure. You should be able to load old settings in a later version of Max. But mostly you can't go the other way... loading later versions in earlier Max, for example trying to load a Max 2015 file in Max 2012 won't work, but vice versa does, mostly.

Eric Chadwick

Oh also, can't load a V-Ray 3.0 file into V-Ray 2.5. But you can go the other way.

aintnobody

Ah that would work great, then.