How to mass-convert to Vray Materials.... any idea of good script ?

[tom schuelke]

Hello Vray users..

we´ve bought a bundle of x-frog trees, to fill up our libary. Now , these trees use max-standartmaterials. We also use the plugin "Project Manager" to organise our libaries.

So what now has to be done is to convert all those Trees to Vraymaterials, and because trees are rather good for backroundrenderings, i would like to turn also all the opacity maps in the corresponding materials to "clip" instead of "normal" to boost up renderspeed. The third thing i am thinking of to optimixse those trees is to convert the materials of the leafs to vray-twosided material, to get in some more lighting on the backside of the leaves..

Well for converting one tree i can use vray-scene converter.. to convert the opacity of all maps inside a scene to clip , theres a script "vray-material-opacity", to convert all the leaves... well i know only handwork..


but now the question is following.. Is there maybe a Script to do some mass-converting of hundrets of max-files ? and to switch opacity too ? ore maybe also to convert the leaves ?
maybe just pointing to the folder, telling what to do and press Execute ?

any ideas ? I know in the project manager thers an area, to execute some scripts after opening max files, which maybe could do this exactly as wished, but i cant script. So maybe youve got an idea maybe only for parts of my problem ?

thanks

Tom

[AlexP]

Theres one called Universal Material Converter which is decent

[tom schuelke]

Hallo AlexP,

Well this would work for one scene that i allready have opened.. But my problem is, i still would have to open hundrets of max files, convert them, save them back and so on..

is there any batch script.. ?

[Vizioen]

You might have luck trying to convince pixamoon (scripter on scriptspot) and ask to implement these things in his Library Track Relink script: http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/sc...y-track-relink

I've asked to implement the reset render settings, convert units and gamma settings and he did it in a week. You may have some luck to ask if he'd like to implement those features you've listed.

[SnipeyX]

i still would have to open hundrets of max files, convert them, save them back and so on..

is there any batch script.. ?

Indeed there is. Paul Neale's "batchIt Max" http://paulneale.com/scripts/batchItMax/batchItMax.htm