One bump map to go over blend materials

[irwit]

Is there a way to create one bump map to cover the whole blend material. In Vray for Maya there is a Bump shader that you can drop the blend shader into but I cannot find anything similar in Max?

Any help much appreciated

Thanks

Will.

[rivoli]

I guess you can't, you'll have to plug the bump map in every material separately.

[AJ Jefferies]

In the slate material editor you can connect one map to the bump of each material in the blend. It's not perfect but it should only take a few seconds to set-up.

If the materials already have a bump map applied & you want an additional bump applied to all of them (on top of their own) then it's a little tricker but you can use a VRayCompTex to achieved this.

Let me know if you need any more info, or if I've completely misunderstood what you're trying to achieve

[irwit]

Cheers for the replies chaps. I'm guessing this thread needs moving to the wishlist then! I always thought Vray for Max would be the most up to date version of Vray.

[rivoli]

browsing the maya forums I often find new features which I'd like to have in max too.. so I guess it's the other way round

[AJ Jefferies]

I always thought Vray for Max would be the most up to date version of Vray.

I'm no expert but I think a lot of the different features between the Max & Maya versions of V-Ray are dependant on how each package natively handle things.

[YoyoBoy]

The Utility Material from the Blur Beta pack of Max plugins does this. At the moment the link is down but, last I checked they do STILL, after all these years, update them with every new version of Max.