Answered: How to plug in the maps in 3ds Max Vray ?

aintnobody · Jan 2016

I'm having trouble getting the metals to render in 3ds Max Vray the way they come out in Quixel 3DO.

Image: https://i.gyazo.com/3e9b1815ffbfca7c5f245b8a63b8ee77.png

I put the specular map in the Reflect slot, the Glossiness map in RGlossiness.

Image: https://i.gyazo.com/c536b6853381214837f86e124016a0be.png

I've tried switching or other slots like Roughness, but nothing comes close to giving similar results as previewed in 3DO.

Image: https://i.gyazo.com/dfb2e826d394b2ef3adcc52bb38447dc.png

Image: https://i.gyazo.com/aab7f08d615567f106f1bd772cf34ae7.png

What should be the optimum maps setup to render in Vray like it does in the 3DO previewer ?

aintnobody · Jan 2016

Is there no answer because there is no answer to this question ?

Synaesthesia · Jan 2016

My apologies for the wait, Aintnobody - I'm not a vRay user, but I can find out what maps go where for you!

aintnobody · Jan 2016

Thank you so much ! Other materials are fine, I think, but metals are always tricky !!! So far I have been unable to get a render like in Quixel.

Synaesthesia · Jan 2016

This is for Maya, Aintnobody, but perhaps it may help:

aintnobody · Jan 2016

Thanks! I'm familiar with that part:

Image: https://i.gyazo.com/83ac28085fa21b8b37a14a0866b2d132.png

but not really the rest like lightLinker and renderPartition. I think using Vray in Maya is not completely the same as for Max.

Synaesthesia · Jan 2016

From a glance, it looks like you just need a metalness map in vRay to fix the metal appearance. I'll check into it more!

aintnobody · Jan 2016

Thank you, I'm looking forward to it!

Synaesthesia · Jan 2016

Have you tried exporting a metalness map from the Suite?

aintnobody · Feb 2016

Hi, The metalness map helped and improved the render making it look closer to metal. It's still not as spectacular as in the 3do render. If I leave the albedo black it renders too black and if I make it greyer it looks halfway between metal and plastic, but there might be things I need to do on my side to get there.

Vipera · Feb 2016

I tried to reproduce material look from 3DO in 3dsmax+Vray3.2. My settings are not final but best what I have got for vray material are below:

Fresnel reflections - OFF

IOR - 4 ???

Input maps:

Diffuse - Gamma 1.0

Reflect - Gamma 1.0

Normal - Gamma 1.0

rGlossiness - Gamma 1.0

BRDF - Microfacet GTR ???

It would be nice to get HDRI maps used for preview in 3DO to put them in 3dsmax or have ability to load any HDRI map into 3DO for the tests.

Synaesthesia · Feb 2016

Here's the HDRIs, if you'd like to use them.

Vipera · Feb 2016

Synaesthesia said:

Here's the HDRIs, if you'd like to use them.

Thank you very much!

Answered: How to plug in the maps in 3ds Max Vray ?

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