3dsmax xref-object (group) looses partly material and shows object colour

[thomes]

hi,
grouped objects as an xref-object, and 2 loose the material...(the lost material has no maps...only vraymaterial) max2016 sp1 vray 3-40-02

update ...?? error window pops up before rendering...it searches for an xrefmaterial in the xref-file ?? i think it came after i picked the material from an object of the xref-object... whats that ?

any idea?
thanks

[thomes]

seems that if i change any objects material in the xrefobjectfile, save it and actualize this xrefobject in the other max, the materials do not get updated... max SP or vrayproblem?

[svetlozar.draganov]

Any chance to send us a sample scenes for investigation?
Does the same thing happen with other materials and render engines?

[thomes]

hi svetlozar,
too late..., nearly a half year later i can´t find the problematic file. didn´t save it these days...

thanks
thomes

[mediarobotics]

Having the same issue here, the XREF objects looses it texture and materials,...

do you think using vray proxy for a large scale scene is better??

[Alex_M]

I had exactly the same problem on a large project recently with Vray 3.40.02 and Max 2016! Using xref objects and xref materials was somewhat mandatory because of the scale of the job. It turned out to be a nightmare. Max was losing the xref materials on objects randomly and I didn't know why. Sometimes it was fine, sometimes they were missing. Restarting Max fixed it for a while before things broke again soon after. I was forced to use local/not xref'ed materials on each scene. Needles to say it was a daunting task because if a material changed, it had to manually be updated across all scene for this project. Good thing I don't have to deal with xref materials often.

[mediarobotics]

do you think it is better to use only V-ray Proxy instead?