Pulling from the R, G, and the B separately (max)?

Silva_Spoon

Is it possible to pull from the R, G, and the B separately in 3dsmax's material editor? I create my shaders in the game engine we are working on this way (spec in red, spec power in green ect.) and its always a pain in the ass to save each map separately for viewing my work in max?

arshlevon

once upon a thyme there was a plugin for older versions of max called color correct and i believe it allowed this type of functionality and things like levels and brightness and contrast, but i havent seen it in awhile.

arshlevon

ah found it and there is even a max 9 version

even allows access to alpha channel if you need it

http://www.cuneytozdas.com/software/3dsmax/

Xenobond

You can change the output in the bitmap map rollout. You just chec 'enable color map' and then you can select the R G B channels and zero out the ones you don't want to use.

At least I think that should work. :S

Silva_Spoon

Thanks for the info!