Grant Warwick- Mastering Vray: Material Ideas Needed.

[squintnic]

im excited!

[grantwarwick]

im excited!

You should be!

[grantwarwick]

Did I mention at any point that I never use the slate material editor?

Hopefully you legacy guys can appreciate that haha!

[Pixelcon]

Did I mention at any point that I never use the slate material editor?

Hopefully you legacy guys can appreciate that haha!

Wow...Props!

[squintnic]

iv never used the slate monitor either - seems laggy
probably explains why my blend materials are stupid basic :-\

[olly]

Slate is just a trap for new players.

[Macker]

Never use the slate editor either. I can appreciate it is a good way of showing someone how a material is set up, but to work with... If it ain't broke; don't fix it.

[tricky]

I tried using slate in Max2013 but found it slow and reverted to the familiar. I'm now using the late editor 99% of the time in Max2014. I'm finding it really useful and quicker than the standard material editor. It also means I can rely less on my worsening memory!

[grantwarwick]

I love you all haha, my faith in humanity is somewhat restored haha
Now imagine if you opened the tutorial and it was all done in slate!

Node based workflows can be awesome but this was a major let down.

[ChrisS]

I'm finding it really useful and quicker than the standard material editor.

second that

[AlexP]

Hate slate

[Dave_Wortley]

I opened Slate the other day expecting to be easily able to set it up so that I could link two different values to one float controller and have a math operator to add 10 to the value on one of the connections... nope!

[elivnA]

I find it odd because, as i'm sure a lot of you guys do as well, I have a 2 screen monitor setup. And having a fullscreen nodal-based material editor on my left screen is tons better than a tight, compacted, limited and ultimately outdated material editor that doesn't resize and has limited material slots. In the beginning the slate editor was laggy and buggy, but now I have next to no problems with using it. Frankly, i've never gone back to the old one. So easy to make materials this way in one giant working sheet where i can have bitmaps floating seperately, drag > copy, multiple tabs. I really don't see what the hate is all about really. And if you make a mess you can easily have them automagically arranged again. Not to mention the advantage of seeing your material tree in one bat of the eye.

[tricky]

And if you make a mess you can easily have them automagically arranged again.

Was wondering if I could do this. How???

[mario74]

i dont miss the old one any more. cant remember when i opened the last time...