render element mtlid

[vermu]

Hi,

Should the rendermtlid element work right out of the box or do I have to assing material ids manually? I always get just black screen when I enable mtlid element. I read somewhere that it should work automatically. I have once rendered the element right and got all the mtlid's showing in different colours, but after that it has been just a black screen. What is the right way to get it working?

[bigbossfr]

Hi,
In Maya, you must to add a material ID manually on your shaders (or shading group).
I don't know if it is the same in 3dsmax.
But in Maya, we have script which generate unique materialID based of the name of the shader. So, it is automatic.

[vlado]

You need to explicitly set the IDs of your materials from the material editor.

Best regards,
Vlado

[vermu]

Ok. Thx. I'll give it a test during the next render. Is there similar plugin for max2012 that bigbossfr is using for maya?

[Morne]

do a quick search on scriptspot, there's a bunch of them that will do what you want