Tagged 'Material Editor'

Show Materials for selected. Just 1 click!

4 votes

A very simple but EXTREMLY USEFUL script you will use all the time!

With just one click it opens the Slate Material Editor and displays all the materials for the selected objects well organized in a clean view.

Forget about the annoying material picker tool. Add this simple button to your toolbar and every time you want to see the material/s for your current selected object/s just click the button and... Voila!

It will save you a lot of time!

SMES - Super Material Editor Switcher

47 votes

 

Having a way to compensate for the (stupid) 24 material limit in 3D Studio is always a big request, so here's a script to do just that.

 

Copy/Paste Material to File

18 votes

This script was inspired by Copy/Paste Obects v0.2 by Christopher Grant .

Material Texture Loader

5 votes

The Material Texture Loader allows for instant adavanced PBR material creation.

By loading in textures the script can automatically creating a complete material setup for you. You can live edit the material by changing settings, like texture channel inputs, material slot assignments, advanced mapping and material parameters.

Features

  • Texture channel regonition based on industry standard name filters and customizable names.
  • Create all required maps with correct gamma for each corresponding material channel.
  • Live texture loading and map editing, like Composite maps for AO and Bump maps, Color Correction map for diffuse, Triplanar, Real-world and random rotation mapping, Blur filtering, IOR and Material ID and more.
  • UDIM texture set support (Arnold and Fstrom not yet supported)
  • Link Mapping and Coordinates for all bitmap and triplanar maps of the same material.
  • Easily apply materials to Selected object, Material editor or Drag and Drop functionality.
  • Add displacement and UVW Map modifiers and control the displacement height and offset.
  • Vray, Corona, Redshift, Arnold, FStorm, Physical, Octane and Standard texture maps and materials are fully supported.

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Material Editor Manager, MEM

26 votes

This script was developed due to a better usability of 3dsmax's material editor.

Reset Material Editor

2 votes

With this script you can reset all materials in your marerial editor to the Materials what you using in your workflow. For now you can reset to Standart marerials, Vray materials, Corona materials, Mental Ray, FStorm, or Arnold materials.
This script is tested at 3ds max 2016 and 3ds max 2021.

Version 1.0
- reset to Standart marerials
- reset to Vray materials
- reset to Corona materials
- reset to Mental Ray

Version 1.1
- reset to FStorm marerials

Version 1.2

Scene Clean

35 votes

Formerly Mat Clean, which was formerly Mat Kill.

*Indicates its newer-ish

*Collapse Stack(s): Collapses the selected objects, or if nothing is selected it will prompt to collapse all objects (even hidden).

*Pivot to World Zero (left click):
Sets the pivot to the lowest point in a mesh, then center, then moves the object to the center of the world zero point.

ML2ME (Material Library To Material Editor)

27 votes

Quick load Material Libraries to the Material Editor.
Quick code just from scratch as well.
Generally useful for all people that found 24 ME slots for not enough.

ML2EM

Multi/Sub Object Material Creator

8 votes

Hi all. Here's my Multi/Sub Object Material Creator.

V.05 Updated UI to a less cumbersome version so it's easier to use. Kudos to Tassel for development)

V.04 Updated to include the option for Mental Ray material preset.

Ui tweaks to seperate the materials It now produces a random colour for each material (thanks to br0t)

Added the option to name your material (thanks to br0t)

V.03 Updated to include Mental Ray materials!

Material Tweaker

33 votes

A very useful script for making lots of material adjustments. It works with Vray material, Standard material, & ArchDesign materials.

This script was recently created during a production to save a ton of time making massive material changes.