3d max material, reflection mask

svcoyle

I have a texture for my model that has wood parts and metal parts. I am trying to create some reflections for the metal. In the past I remember just using a mask to mask out the areas i dont want reflections for. I am currently using max 2010 but the mask is being treated like the reflection so the mask is "moving" around like the reflection if that makes sense. Is there a way to make the mask not use the reflection coordinates?

svcoyle

It seems to somewhat work when rendered. But with the hardware rendering on for the viewport it doesnt work at all.

Eric Chadwick

Yeah, inside a Bitmap map there is a rollout called Coordinates. Make sure the radio button for Texture is active, and make sure the dropdown next to it is set to Explicit Map Channel.

The UI is shown about halfway down here.
http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/13/ENU/Autodesk%203ds%20Max%202011%20Help/files/WSf742dab0410631334fd1fb1c112a1ce99ff-7f3e.htm

Oh and the Mask map type probably won't work properly in the viewport, it's designed for rendering only. Besides, Max can't display more than one UV channel at a time in the viewport...

Tyrone70

svcoyle wrote: »

It seems to somewhat work when rendered. But with the hardware rendering on for the viewport it doesnt work at all.

Are you using a real time shader for Max?

here are 2 pretty popular ones:
http://www.laurenscorijn.com/viewportshader
http://www.3pointstudios.com/3pointshader_about.shtml