mutli-material still used?

CrazyButcher

rewrting some import/export stuff for luxinia and wondered if max's mutli-materials (or if a equivalent in maya exists) are actually still used at all?

glib

AFAIK, they're required for crysis exports.

fast1

anything else besides crysis?

oobersli

you mean multi/subobject mats? I don't know anybody who doesn't use them, unless they want an unorganized mat editor.

Hourences

Required for Unreal and Unity. Used heavily.

Rob Galanakis

Unfortunately they are used quite heavily. I fucking hate them. It will be a must to support them...

CrazyButcher

I support them at the moment, just was refactoring code and hoped for a shortcut
thanks for the quick feedback!

commander_keen

well you cant render 2 materials on an object in max without it :P

Yozora

commander_keen wrote: »

well you cant render 2 materials on an object in max without it :P

Yes you can, but it will be messy...

You can select certain faces and apply different materials to them and it will auto-assign a different mat id for those faces.

MoP

Yozora, yes, and in doing that it automatically creates a hidden Multi/Sub material containing instances of the materials applied. You have to use "Get Material" in the material browser to find it.
So commander_keen is right

SHEPEIRO

yep i use them but wish i didnt have too how hard is it to know at all times what is in your scene grrr

renderhjs

should be a lot easier with the new material explorer in max2010
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQMIa-gHnI[/ame]

SHEPEIRO

yes that is much more of an improvement,

Xenobond

Use multimats for everything in the game.

Mark Dygert

renderhjs wrote: »

should be a lot easier with the new material explorer in max2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQMIa-gHnI

It looks like a bunch of good ideas, hopefully they sped up the scene explore instead of bogging down material editor, there have been times in 2008-09 that I actually launched it and while waiting for it to come up managed to select all the elements I was going to use it to filter.

Some one posted a way to go back to the old simple menu and I've been using that ever since. I'll give it a try when we get around to upgrading at work... fingers crossed.

sprunghunt

In every engine I've used multi sub materials add a transform cost to an in-game object. Usually they're especially bad on deforming vertexes. So I avoid using them unless I have to.

michi.be

I use them every day. Crysis mainly but also on other models. They keep my material explorer tidy.

DrillerKiller

yup, use em on just about everything