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Custom material plugin for Max?
We're updating our 3ds Max material export pipeline, and we're thinking about coding a custom material that streamlines just the options we need to support for our game engine. Awhile back I did some research into using MXS to customize a material, but it seemed people encountered quite a few pitfalls with insufficient… -
3DSMax - Maxstart scene - Materials not saving
Hey to all, I created a MaxStart scene, and save in it a couple of materials (such as basic checker, Masks by ID, etc). Problem is these materials don't load when I open Max, everything else does, but not the materials. I have to manually load the Maxstart scene so that it loads the material. Any tips as to why this might… -
Layered Materials - Opacity Mask Not Working
Hi everyone. I'm trying to use a opacity alpha (black and white) plugged into a MatLayerBlend_OverrideOpacityMask for a layered material. When I use the mask in a standard material, it works; however, it doesn't seem to work in the layered material. This question has been posted before but it was never resolved.… -
How long does it take you to make a material?
I am just making the final touches to my chain mail material. It has taken me 6 hours so far. My material has different user changeable settings like rust, dirt, blood, age, shape, etc. I think i might go 1 or 2 more hours into it. I have so far 2-3 Months of substance experience. I was wondering if I took too long to do… -
Material Function with Deferred Decals
Hi everyone. So I'm having a small problem with using Material Functions with Deferred Decals. Here is my material function for a white plastic. Here is the setup that does not work. When I apply this to my decal nothing appears. It's odd because it looks good in the previewer. Here is the setup that does work. When I… -
Need advice procedural materials with no uv directly in Arnold or substance with uv
Hello, I need some advice regarding material creation for a pre rendered scene that I'm making in Maya that will be rendered with Arnold. My goal is to create a beauty render. I was thinking about the workflow to use to create materials for the scene, I usually do a proper uv workflow where I make the materials inside… -
Re: Vertex Color vs Material ID
Material IDs are for assigning multiple materials to a single model, but they are assigned per triangle (or per polygon). Material IDs do not blend, they are one ID per face. Material IDs cause the vertices to be duplicated along the seam between the two IDs. This increases the in-game vertex count, which is not really a… -
(Solved) UV Scale in SP vs Material Tiling SD
Hi, I have been wondering about this. When I author a material in SD, I am able to change the material tiling factor to check how it may look with higher UV scale. SD (this is under 3d scene -> materials -> edit): SP: While that works, I believe it isn't the same as the UV scale for material in SP. When I examine the same… -
Zbrush materials in xnormal
Hey, I got a question about getting zbrush materials on a game model, so here goes: I have a low and high poly model that I export to xNormal to get my normal and AO maps. The low-poly is UV unwrapped, of course. Now the high-poly model is unwrapped too because I also create a texture map inside of zbrush that has the… -
Re: Solved: Custom Material Not showing
That's because you're applying Smart Materials with SHIFT+C+LMB. A custom material is a Material, not a Smart Material. :smile: Add a regular Material, select it from the Custom category, and then assign it in 3DO via C+LMB.
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