VMC (VRay Material Control)

Hi there,

Thanks for donating!

Resetting subdivs is on my list, I just need to find the time to implement it.

Follow https://twitter.com/Ollyspolys to hear about the next release as soon as it happens.

Thank you for your patience.

Olly

Hello i have purchased this plugin.
Is there any chance to change subdvs to selected objects only?

Thank you

Great Script Olly it's a fantastic time saver. What are the chances of you writing a new script to do the same thing for corona materials?

I have! I just need to find time to finish it off and release it. Watch this space.

Hi Olly, I´ve installed the tool but when I try to run it (via the shorcut I´ve assigned) it returns me this error:
Syntax error: at keyword parameter, expected name

Did I miss something?
Thanks!

Hi Olly,

I've been using your script for quite a while and I am a donor. Your script is great but one thing I noticed is that it has no setting to select the transluscency type. In many evermotion objects, I found that they set the translucency type to "hybrid" which I ought to change to "none" for all the objects but this feature is not yet in your script. Can you please take a look at this? Thank you very much.

Regards,
Magicseed

Hi magicseed,

You need to choose the property "translucency_on" in section 2. Then choose the integer that represents the setting you want. I realise some of the proprty names are little hard to find, but Chaos set those not me!

For more infor on how to set drop downs please refer to the VMC script help.

Hope that helps?

Hi Olly,

Thank you for your reply. I realized that a bit too late. Your script is truly useful. I have a very strong recommendation though. I hope you can develop an interface that would allow to apply sets of properties instead of just one property on the go. For example, it would be more useful if I can select refraction, reflection, diffuse and glossiness and set the values and apply them on one go. And then, user should be able to save these settings for future use. Most importantly, the ability to apply this set of properties in batch mode (power user). I have tried the power user option but it can apply only one particular property. Not so helpful if I want to change 100 max files in my library. If I am going to change 5 properties, The script will open these files 500 times to complete the process.

Well, just my suggestion and I will continue to be your donor in developing this script. Very nice work!

Regards,
Magicseed

Hi Magicseed,

I can see that opening the files 500 time is inefficient. I will look at this when I next get some time to develop the script and let you know how things go!

Cheers,
Olly

Hello,

Has anyone experienced problems when setting all lights subdivs, that std lights subdivs don't get affected ? AFAIR, VMC had the problem a while ago, but this was solved ?

Thanks.

Hi NicolasC,

I will look into the standard light subdiv issue.

No eta on the subdiv reset for selected - it is trickier than I had hoped to get a graceful solution, but will persevere!

I have been working on storing the classes to improve the performance so it should help your issue with vraydirt maps.

I only work on this when I have a spare evening so you will have to bear with me - watch this space!

Cheers,
Olly

Thanks for you answer !
I hope this bug with std lights can be fixed easily & quickly ... I've taken the habit to rely on VMC to tweak subdivs on all my scenes, so it was a bit of a pain to handle manually std lights subdivs yesterday evening ;)

Thanks again for your great work on VMC.

Cheers.

Hi,

I have the same problem as NicolasC for standard lights subdivs: it is not affected by VMC.
Another problem with lights is that "All Off", "All On", "Sel Off" and "Sel On" buttons don't work properly when there are both standard and VRay lights in the scene.
Anyway, thank you for this great script !

Hello Olly !

I have 2 questions about VMC (which is getting more and more essential with each update btw):

- any ETA for the activation of the Selected feature in Global Subdivs Reset ?
- with big scenes, I've noticed a huge slowdown in VMC processing as long as Maps is checked in Global Subdivs Reset section. Maybe I'm missing something, but in such scenes where the only map needing subdivs adjustment is VRay Dirt, why would it be so slow ? I've even been forced to kill 3dsmax process after about 15 minutes waiting ... then loaded the scene again, left everything checked apart Maps, and everything was fine ;)

Thanks again for your efforts enhancing VMC !

Cheers.

Hi,

Thank you for this great script ! I use it a lot but there is still something I can't do: I would like to set a particular value for both "Blur" and "Blur offset" values of bitmaps in my VRayMtls. So far I didn't find how to do it.
Does it mean I must be a donor to be able to do it ?

Thank you in advance for your answer,

Hi MaximuM,

Thank you for your question.

Yes that feature is unlocked for donors. If you are a donor and are still having trouble please email me!

Cheers,
Olly

Introducing Batch Mode!

The VMC Script now has a Batch Mode (Power Tool) that allows you to set properties and reset subdivs on a whole directory. Great for getting your purchased asset collections where you want them.

Get the update here: http://www.oliverradford.com/3ds-max/scripts/vmc-vray-material-control/

Please let me know if you find any bugs!

Hello,

Thanks for the great work you do on VMC - definitely a must-have (that's why I made a donation btw :P).
A question though: would it be tricky to add an option in the "4.Apply Change To:" section, to be able to apply only to material using a defined prefix or suffix ? for example, apply change only to materials starting with Glass* or ending with *Inox ...

Thanks !

Thanks for the donation - much appreciated.

Interesting idea for the wildcards - I will look into it!

Sorry to hear people are having problems with my script.

I will take a look this evening and try and post a fix!

Thank you for your patience.

Olly

I've just added version 2.129:

• Fixed “Unable to convert: "" to type: BooleanClass” bug
• Fixed “Turn off store with ir map” for vraylights (Power Tools)
• Fixed "Turn off reflect on back side" button (Power Tools)
• Fixed "All proxys to point" (Power Tools)
• Added "Remove selection’s materials" (Power Tools)

Get the update here: http://www.oliverradford.com/3ds-max/scripts/vmc-vray-material-control/

Please let me know if you find any bugs!

Thank you. will test it

I just tried the latest version of this - when i install it says "-- Unable to convert: ""to type: BooleanClass". After that it says VMC is installed. When i try to run it, it will not open and repeats that first message. How do i uninstall and do a clean reinstall ? thx
ok - i realised you have to delete the old files from your local user folder & then reinstall. problem solved.

Hi!
I did not get where exactly and what do I have to delete to reinstall this script!?

I have been facing a little problem with this script. At first I installed the script and it run just fine, then i changed material subdivs to 8, but when i did that all of sudden all subdivs where changet to 128, and when i tried to open script againt to fix it I got an error:unable to convert undefined to type string.
It opens but the script window is blank and I can not do a thing.
any solution? pls help me, I dont want to change the material properties manualy.

I've just added version 2.1: http://www.oliverradford.com/3ds-max/scripts/vmc-vray-material-control/

Thanks for the update, its a great tool ,but i got "syntax error: at keyword parameter, expected name" on 3dmax2011 x64

I got the same problem :( did you find a solution?
Thanks

If you get in touch via http://www.oliverradford.com/contact-me/ and tell me a bit more about your setup and installation method, I should be able to help.

I got the same problem. Syntax error: at keyword parameter, expected name

I think any version of VLC created in 2015 don´t works on max older than 2013.

Would have to make available for download again review v2.126?

The last version I have here is the 2.01. It´s running at max 2010, however has a bug that does not work change some properties of selected objects.

I also have version 1.12 that works a little better, but not have as many features.

Thanks.

Hi, I have 2.13.04 working fine here on Max 2015.
Maybe uninstall and reinstall it properly would fix your problem ?
Hope it helps.
Edit: sorry I just understood that you are trying to make WMC working on OLDER versions of 2013 ...

I've just added version 2.1: http://www.oliverradford.com/3ds-max/scripts/vmc-vray-material-control/

Hi first of all thank you for this script! It helped me when I needed to remove a material interpolation that created additional passes and slows the calculation. That was when I used 3ds max 2010, now I switched to the 2014 version and have the same problem!!! I belive the script does not work with 3ds max 2014, I mean... the script installed correctly, and found the category to creat the shortcut button ... but nothing happens when I press it, the scripts windows should appear...

Did you manage to get it to work? It works with 2014 here.

I've just added version 2.01: http://www.oliverradford.com/3ds-max/scripts/vmc-vray-material-control/

Big thanks for the update - now that I work in a company and will use your script quite often I guess, I'll make a donation, at the end of the month !

Thanks again,

Regards.

Hello,

I've just noticed that std lights using VRayShadow don't seem to be handled ... I mean, shadows subdivs aren't changed ;) could you please fix that ?
So far, I used my own little script to do that, but since you've greatly enhanced your VMC, why not getting it doing it all :)

Many thanks !

Thanks for the pointer, I'm looking in to it.

Amazing ! thanks a lot :)

v2 is ready for download!

Version 1.12 was working great for me in 2012. Unfortunately I lost my copy, anywhere I can still find it?

Version 2 is nearly ready, I appreciate your patience!

Thanks Olly, looking forward to it :)

Simply a must for production ... big thanks :)

I'm getting a few emails from people having trouble with the VMC script in Max 2013. However everyone's problems are slightly different and I'm unable to reproduce them all.

I'll get it working for the next release, so if you are having any problems at all (or have any feature requests out suggestions) please feel leave a reply.

This script is one of the most useful I ever encountered! Thx in advance for all the hours you spared me! Which reminds me why the hell don't they, at Chaos group, implement this directly in Vray.

Very usefull tool but can we have the possibilitiy to change the gamma of a texmap?
For exemple override the gamma of a diffuse map to 1, 2.2 or 0.45454 if we d like to work in linear workflow like in this case:
http://www.aversis.be/tutorials/vray/essential_gamma_03.htm

v1.12:

Increased height of property drop down and add active medit slot button.

Not change the value Refl.Glossiness 1.0 defaut a 0,55 Why?

Sorry, I was wrong

Great script. I wonder how easy it would be to add a function to strip all maps/bitmaps on any given material type? I often find I open a scene from someone with missing maps and want to quickly strip the maps to get an error free render.

Yes,I agree with titane357, like light lister in max, it have more properties to shown up, your drop down is too confuses to me (to much setting that not show), not efficient for fast move!

Thanks for update Olly...
For the drop down list I was dreaming on a heighter list (more properties seen) ;-)

v1.11:
Bug fix for scene mats button. Increased width for drop downs to help with long names.
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Hi

What you use for Tree animation?

You done a good job in your Animation,

Regards,

Nice script, but not very handy : >Property To Change list should be longer ;-))

Not sure why that is, but you can download it above in the attachment box.

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High Quality Architectural Visualisation - http://www.foundationcgi.com/

I wanted to test the latest script from the website but I am getting this error:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /
on this server.

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Apache Server at www.foundationcgi.com Port 80 Regards, Manny

Great script, many thanks!!
I am working with Lele's 0.255 methode and what I mis in this script is the option to change the RGB-output of the diffuse and the reflection map. No I use a old script to change these values, but there is no option to do that only on the materials of the selected objects.

Regards

v1.10:
Updated for Vray SP3a.

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good tools,thanks

This tool is really a time saver. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully you extend the area of usage in the future by adding mental ray materials.

Thanks for sharing this valuable time saving tool. It is a script all 3d architectural visualisation professionals would benefit from.
THANKS AGAIN
jAMIE

v1.08:

Added support for VrayOverrideMtl.

Thie script is very good,Use is very convenient.
But don't support vrayOverrideMtl.

This script is GREAT! I do arch-viz work with VRay - so I'm often wanting to change materials en mass. You can quickly enable/disable reflections, change IOR or any number of other VRay material options.

v1.07:

Performance Optimisations

Great job, was just about to code this myself. Saved me a lot of time, thanks!

v1.06:

Added Composite, shellac, shell, top/bottom, blend and RPM Material Support.

v1.05:

Added support for vrayblendmtl coatmtl's.

v1.03:

Removed display of unsupported properties, specifically sub-materials & maps. Added a help. Thoroughly tested this time, so hopefully no more surprises...

v1.04:

Added support for VrayMtl's contained within VRayOverrideMtl.

v1.02:

Added undo & re-wrote functions to change properties of nested materials more effeciently.