Over the month of September I am running a "Materials Mentorship" program through Patreon. The main goal of the mentorship is for the artist to create one or two materials over the course of a month with tools currently used in AAA production pipelines. The materials will be created referencing real life sources, as well,…
Hey guys, a buddy of mine at work is having some issues with viewport rendering of his material in 3ds Max. When he applies the material, it is visible but only when he enables the hardware rendering or else the model only shows with the material being invisible...He's an animator, the hardware rendering would be great if…
Has anyone worked with StingrayPBS materials and python in Maya? I'm wanting to batch create multiple StingrayPBS materials and set the Preset Material for each one. Unfortunately, when you change the Preset Material, a message pops up saying "Loading a preset [...]. Continue?" This pop up makes it very awkward to run this…
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I am having some issues related to using my baked RGB maps as Material ID maps in the Multi Material Bland node. This issue also regard the color to mask nodes. I bake my RGB base map in 3Ds Max and I dilate the edges in photoshop using the xnormal dilation filter. The issue lies within using anti aliasing in the multi…
I would like to make a crystal Material and a ice material: ICE Crystal: except that I know myself as materialBut I am unable to find for this. Could you help me find a way to create this material? (sorry for my bad english:()
I have a complex model and many tabs with materials in the Slate Material Editor. If I use the compact material editor there is no problem. But when the Slate material editor is open, selecting objects in the viewport is slow (a lag of 2-4 seconds) between each selected objects. The viewport performance itself is great…
Hello everyone, I put in a free download real-time material ball. With a complete set-up in substance Painter so you can quickly and easily create your materials. I also offers a full set-up in Marmoset to make your renders (rendered image and video viewer). Everything is already configured for you ! Your turn to play…
The themes are very broad because we see people creating all sorts of materials procedurally and that's where SD is interesting, it allows you to create anything. Restricting the theme too much on a material only contest like this wouldn't make much sense because there is very little value for artists and for the jury to…
ya got your QC pointing to a material in the wrong spot and your vmt pointing to a texture in the wrong spot. both the vmt and vtf should be stored in "STEAMDIR\USERDIR\team fortress 2\tf\materials\models\weapons" and once there both there fix your qc to point to the vmt and recompile, and fix the vmt to point to the new…