Enscape to VRay for 3Ds Max

[Macker]

Hi All,

I've seen a few articles on Enscape to VRay compatibility in Rhino/Revit and so on...

Just curious whether this will be making its way to 3ds max in some form or another? We use Enscape a HUGE amount, so to be able to bring this through to 3Ds Max/VRay and not have to re-do all the materials, etc would be great. Or will Enscape itself be making its way over to max?

Apologies if this has already been asked.

Kind regards,
Chris

[matanov]

Hi Chris,

We're planning a way to import Enscape scene data into Max. It will happen probably in the coming year.

How do you imagine the workflow in your case?

[Macker]

Oh that's fantastic news!

I hadn't really given any thought as to how it would be implemented but I can describe a very likely scenario that we will find ourselves in.

Often a member of staff will have produced a crude Sketchup/Enscape model that we then get asked to "make better". More often than not this will stay in Sketchup/Enscape and we'll just improve the modelling/texturing and so on - but every once in a while someone will say "can we have animated people", or "can you make it more photorealistic" at which point we know it's time for 3DS max/VRay/Anima. So fundamentally whatever comes in needs to be editable in some capacity or another (Enscape assets could behave the same as Chaos Cloud assets in that they aren't editable).

I suppose from my point of view if I could export from Enscape some kind of file that could be imported into 3DS max (via an importer that I guess you'd need to make?) that brings in all the geometry/people/cars/foliage (we use Skatter a lot in Sketchup) and converts as best as possible the materials to VRay materials... That would be Ideal. I don't personally need a live-link or anything of the sort.

From my point of view as long as the materials came through more or less the same, I'd be happy.

[matanov]

Oh that's fantastic news!

I hadn't really given any thought as to how it would be implemented but I can describe a very likely scenario that we will find ourselves in.

Often a member of staff will have produced a crude Sketchup/Enscape model that we then get asked to "make better". More often than not this will stay in Sketchup/Enscape and we'll just improve the modelling/texturing and so on - but every once in a while someone will say "can we have animated people", or "can you make it more photorealistic" at which point we know it's time for 3DS max/VRay/Anima. So fundamentally whatever comes in needs to be editable in some capacity or another (Enscape assets could behave the same as Chaos Cloud assets in that they aren't editable).

I suppose from my point of view if I could export from Enscape some kind of file that could be imported into 3DS max (via an importer that I guess you'd need to make?) that brings in all the geometry/people/cars/foliage (we use Skatter a lot in Sketchup) and converts as best as possible the materials to VRay materials... That would be Ideal. I don't personally need a live-link or anything of the sort.

From my point of view as long as the materials came through more or less the same, I'd be happy.

Thanks for the info!