Tagged 'Material'

Project Manager - Asset Browser for 3ds Max

• Easy to organize and use 3ds Max Models, Materials, Textures and IES Photometric Lights.
• Merge Models, Materials, Bitmaps and IES using Drag& Drop.
• Store/Create Proxy with materials.
• Interactive rendering previews for Materials, IES Photometric, BVH Motion capture, FBX, OBJ, 3DS and other such 3d files.
• Show native previews for 3ds Max files, GrowFx, Revit, Substance, BIP motion, SketchUp, Revit, HDRI & etc.
• Support to Substance textures
• Search files by tags and file-names.
• Power Asset Tracking Management.
• Support to most used renderers like V-Ray, Corona, Octane, Mental Ray, Maxwell & etc.

Changes for Project Manager v.2.96.00:

• Simplifies a method of adding a new material library:
  Now user can start create a new material library from any place of material treeView.
• Adds an ability to rendering previews using Corona Frame Buffer
• Minor interface changes
• The "Save Selected" now saves the nodes without materials in Slate Material Editor only if the option "Clear Unused Assets" is checked
• Hidden categories remain as hidden when merging models which categories are hidden
• Fixes a potential issue with interactive rendering preview for 3D files
• Fixes some minor issues with API
• Fixes an issue with merging models.

Changes for Project Manager v.2.95.32:

This version of Project Manager focuses on convenience and new features for export selected geometry.

• "Save/Export Selected" - the ability to save selected geometry to different files when selection contains multiple objects or groups.
• "Save/Export Selected" - new option to remove unused assets when save selected geometry to 3ds Max file.
• "Save/Export Selected" - the ability to save without materials in Slate Material Editor now works properly.
• Adds support to create Arnold Proxy in 3ds Max 2020.
• Fixes an issue with duplicate material dialog when merge models as xRef.

Changes for Project Manager v.2.95.20:

• Adds support to 3ds Max 2020.
• A smarter method for setting up the pivot for meshes when exporting to a proxy.
• Some changes for saving a Proxy with material.
• Adds a new API method - MakeProxyFromFile. See the example in the file "AddToForest.ms" in the "presets" directory.
• Fixes an issue with API method "ConvertToProxy".
• Fixes an issue with creating the Final Render Proxy.
• Fixes an issue with creating the RedShift Proxy.
• Fixes some minor issues with renaming items in the listview.
• Fixes some issues with optimization when generating PDF.
• Fixes some minor issues with comparing external files with the same name but different content.
• Fixes some other minor issues.

Update History for all versions.

Models	Materials	Textures
HDRI	IES	Asset Files

This script will allow you to replace the materials in your scene with materials from a library or max file in mass. Use the match name button if the names of your materials are similar.

Simple floating 'toolbar' example where you can quickly toggle reflection override for the current viewport (any custom picked hdri map will work) and set its rotation. Since it's just a viewport override, all the materials applied to the objects will be left untouched. Comes in handy for example when checking for shading errors.

Straight forward script to load a directory of your choice or by recursively going through a single directory (be careful it doesn't go through too many as this will be slow to load) and loading up .mat files.

From here the script will apply Materials only (no maps) to teapots.

I use this to quickly populate the scene with all materials inside a .mat file to tweak and update it quicker.

See screenshot.

Can be found under the category: 3dwannab

Open script and change:
local intialMLPath = "F:\SS_3diT\Textures & Materials\Corona"

to your own user library of your choice.