Vray Material Repository: Gathering of ideas

[jtiscareno]

late to the thread but...where is the object to start playing with it???

[DaForce]

Sorry guys, bad news. THe maxwellian scene/model got shutdown.

See the following PM

Hi,

I have been notified that you have been attempting a literal copy of the Maxwell material object and scene, without permission.

-Thomas

and my reply

Ahh yeah.

We are actually building up our own model now anyway.
So i will stop and any advancement on the maxwell model and scene and delete any data for it.

Thanks and sorry.

I figured best to bow out now than cause problems later.

So im sorry but I wont be sharing the model in this thread.

As for how i got it.. well thats classified

[studioDIM]

yeah, np.
they had a good IDEA.
We can move further in the directions we need and can.
I guess we'll be somewhere soon enough, daforce

Lele

[CCS]

Also, before I forget. Will you all please stop using that teapot!!!! It's blatant infringement!!!

[DaForce]

[Neilg]

haha, respect. How did you actually get the model?

[DaForce]

Now you know I cant tell you that

[DJ-Studd]

Better yet, a script that would load each material one at a time and render them out and save render times to a text file. Lele?????

I'll have a crack at this if Lele doesn't want to

-- DJ

[DJ-Studd]

Ok...
this messy script will loop over each material in the material library, apply it to the item named "MyItem", perform a render using the current render settings (with max quick render) and then spits out the time in a text file called "c:\maxtime.txt" - WARNING: c:\maxtime.txt will be OVERWRITEN WITHOUT PROMPT

fn setMaterial matnum item = (
	item.material = matLib[matnum]
)



matLib = currentMaterialLibrary
numMats = matLib.count
results = ""


for i = 1 to numMats do
	(
	setMaterial i $MyItem
	
	startime = timestamp()
	max quick render
	endtime = timestamp()
	
	rendertime = ((endtime - startime) / 1000.0)
	print rendertime
	
	matname = $MyItem.material as string;
	
	results = results + "\n" + "The material " +  matname + " took " + rendertime as string + " seconds to render."
	
	)
	
textfile = createFile "c:\\maxtime.txt"
print results to: textfile
ShellLaunch  "c:\\maxtime.txt" ""

[siliconbauhaus]

hahahh...the paranoia rises once again like a phoenix in the maxwell camp, they are the strangest bunch there. One guy who's been banned for consitently bitching over there but is now back was making some comment about vray playing catch up. I look at vray playing catch up as well....but its to lap maxwell.

I actually prefer the model the german blokes have been using.

Sorry guys, bad news. THe maxwellian scene/model got shutdown.

See the following PM

Hi,

I have been notified that you have been attempting a literal copy of the Maxwell material object and scene, without permission.

-Thomas

and my reply

Ahh yeah.

We are actually building up our own model now anyway.
So i will stop and any advancement on the maxwell model and scene and delete any data for it.

Thanks and sorry.

I figured best to bow out now than cause problems later.

So im sorry but I wont be sharing the model in this thread.

As for how i got it.. well thats classified

[RErender]

They really don't have a leg to stand on to stop us from using it, the file was freely distributed with no stipulation as to it's use.

That being said, a different object will be fine. Maybe we'll just use their maps :P

[jujubee]

Agreed but I could see why they'd get pissy and can't blame them entirely.

Someone just needs to model a better object I suppose. Any ideas?

[Paul Oblomov]

Maybe a VRay logo with some objects near it....

[jujubee]

You guys suppose that the material repository should be only available to registered users? Perhaps in order to download, one also has to contribute and their contribution needs to be approved. Just some ideas to toss around...

[DaForce]

I reckon free to all registered users on the forum.

As not everyone here is an uber material maker... but by downloading these materials they will be able to pick them apart and learn.
Plus its alot easier to manage