3DS Max Material Library vs Sketchup

[igendreau]

Brand new to V-Ray for 3DS Max but have used V-Ray for Sketchup for years. Was just wondering if there is a 3DS Max material library out of the gate similar to Sketchup. In Sketchup, fresh off the V-Ray install you have a whole bunch of built in V-Ray materials like fabrics, meshes, metals of various colors, plastics, bricks, ground cover, etc... that you could start painting with right off the bat. I realize 3DSMax is a whole other level of rendering, but does that exist in 3DSM? Or do you need to start by creating your own material or downloading a vismat from one of many places on the web.

Thanks for the advice!

[Nicinus]

Had no idea you got all that with Sketchup version. How many materials are there? Maybe it is the Corona library that they are starting to convert?

[igendreau]

It looks like there are roughly 550 preset materials included in the install. Categories are:
Bricks, Carpaint, Ceramic & Porcelain, Concrete, Diagrammatic, Emmisive, Fabric, Foam, Glass, Ground, Leather, Liquid, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Stone, Tiles, Various, Wallpaint & Wallpaper, Wood & Laminate.

It's nice because you can get pretty darn far on a rendering simply by applying the presets and combining that with tweaking some basic diffuse or reflection settings. I just assumed that was a V-Ray across the board thing and not particular to Sketchup. As I'm just beginning to learn 3DS Max, I thought "let's hop in and start painting some stuff and see how it looks", but couldn't find the 3DS Max equivalent.

[Nicinus]

It seems like there is very little cooperation between the teams of different versions of Vray. A material library for 3ds Max has been mentioned by Chaos several times over the years, I think it was related to the VRmat library, but we haven't seen the fruits of it yet.

[Shiyan lin]

If you have poliigon subscribtion,you can use maxscript from poliigon.com which can convert textures(Diffuse,roughness,bump,displacement) to Vraymtl in batch.

https://help.poliigon.com/tools-and-...on-for-3ds-max