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in 3ds max make Shader Graph file default or load it with maxscript
I want to have a default directx material with specific shader graph file in my 3ds max. How to do that? With 3ds max 2016 I was trying to load sfx file via maxscript but couldn't find any information on how to access ShaderFX Editor. Also, I was trying to make a default my sfx shader graph file without any luck? I cracked… -
Re: in 3ds max make Shader Graph file default or load it with maxscript
Thanks for the reply, maybe I wasn't clear, I already have shader graph (actually it's from Maya, but it doesn't matter really) file and I can use it manually without any issue. What I need is to load this shader graph `sfx` file with maxscript OR make this shader graph default for my directx material. -
Re: in 3ds max make Shader Graph file default or load it with maxscript
Thank you, I already have tried saveing sfx to mat file, that doesn't work - when I load such material it doesn't have sfx graph applied. As for the second suggestion, I want the graph to be default with directx material only and not with any material or any created object. -
Re: in 3ds max make Shader Graph file default or load it with maxscript
Afaik the easiest way is to save the sfx material to a mat file and load that (via loadTempMaterialLibrary). Alternatively you could directly access the windows/buttons via HWND, but that's super hacky (might not work right across Max versions). To make it the default material applied to all new model primitives in the… -
Re: in 3ds max make Shader Graph file default or load it with maxscript
I've not done this with max but there is a rudimentary shaderfx API for maya that might give you some clues about where to start. I forget who wrote it but It was definitely linked on tech-artists.org and I believe it was also on the shader fx website. with that you can create a shaderfx graph - in practice you'd probably… -
Re: in 3ds max make Shader Graph file default or load it with maxscript
i just dug out a script i made on max2012 that loads a saved .mat (directx material with a .fx file loaded) - it worked as PolyHertz says. -
Re: in 3ds max make Shader Graph file default or load it with maxscript
I tried loading a .mat file with a simple sfx material before posting that and it loaded fine. That was with Max 2022 though so there might be issues with older versions of Max...
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