How to find incompatible map/material in my BIG scene...?

Jonathan85

How to find incompatible map/material in my BIG scene...?

 I have 3ds max and vray 3.4... i tried to open and render some old scenes created with vray 1.5 Sp3 (or something), but the scene isquite huge and there is some stupid map/material not really compatible with vray and thus really slowing down th rendering of the scene...

From what i know the problematic type is most likely Raytrace (material or map im not sure)... The problem is i cannot find it in my scene... its big and has around 250 materials...?

Is there some way how to find this material? Im not lucky, tried everything i thought of, downloaded some plugins but wasnt lucky...

I just need some tool to find the materials/maps (im not sure if its material of map since raytrace can be both). Or the object on which these material are placed on. So i can fuckin* delete the shit out of them from the scene so i can render it normally and not super slow...

How can i find specific material/map type in my scene in 3ds max 2015?

KurtR

Use Relink Bitmap

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/relink-bitmaps

KurtR

Btw, you can also check your paths' by going to the utility tab, hit "more" and open Bitmap/photometric paths and "edit resources. Here you can strip out everything you don't want, but the relink bitmap is great to relink broken links.

monster

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but you didn't mention missing textures. If you are missing a plugin you can use the Missing Plugin Object Explorer in Tools | All Global Explorers.

If you know the maxscript class you can easily find the materials with a script

select (for obj in geometry where classof obj.material == RaytraceMaterial collect obj)

But if you don't know the maxscript class name you can kinda guess at it.

select (for obj in geometry where matchpattern ((classof obj.material) as string) pattern:"*raytrace*" ignoreCase:true collect obj)

Jonathan85

monster said:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but you didn't mention missing textures. If you are missing a plugin you can use the Missing Plugin Object Explorer in Tools | All Global Explorers.

If you know the maxscript class you can easily find the materials with a script

select (for obj in geometry where classof obj.material == RaytraceMaterial collect obj)

But if you don't know the maxscript class name you can kinda guess at it.

select (for obj in geometry where matchpattern ((classof obj.material) as string) pattern:"*raytrace*" ignoreCase:true collect obj)

Thank you, this might actually be usefull, ill try it.