Export Vray Materials

[Jim Meston]

Sorry for being a Max noob, but how do you export vray materials for use in other DCCs?

Thanks for your patience!

[trinity3d_cg]

there is a great little tool that installs with V-Ray for 3ds max - it's at the bottom of the "Tools" pulldown and it's the V-Ray material exporter.

[Jim Meston]

Ah I don't have that for some reason. I wonder why !!

[hermit.crab]

Try clicking on the "V-Ray menu registration" toolbar button or type the following code in the MaxScript listener:

[I]registerVRayMenus[/I]()

Otherwise, exporting the materials as .vrmat files (and loading them via VRayVRmatMtl) is one way of doing it. You can also export a .vrscene through the .vrscene exporter and load it instead.

[Jim Meston]

I ended up extracting the materials from vrscenes as this seems to work pretty well and duplicates most aspects of the material.
The only issue was and expected one, with Max using uv channel references different to Houdini.

Thank you very much for the help. Much appreciated!!