vray materials by default

[djembe]

Thank you, studioDIM.
I've been wanting something exactly along these lines.
Works well.

[Candelero]

@ studioDIM

Nice, thank you!
Could not run to test it, as it requires 1.47.03. Is there a way to script it so, that it knows which is the current version on the PC and use it ?

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[studioDIM]

Updated, Nikki.

Try it and let me know if it works.

Here is the link:

http://www.studiodim.it/_download/vrswitcher.ms

(it's not the same link as the previous one! The free sharing host adds a random number at the end...)

Lele

[Candelero]

Thank you!
Will take a try.

[studioDIM]

It should work as long as the newer (i guess that's your case, Nikki) versions of vray still hook up to maxscript with the string "VRay" in the renderer's name.

If they do not, it's just a case of letting me know how the hooking it's done, and i'll fix it...

re,

Lele

edit: the link is down, dammit!
I'll post it on the studio's website on monday...

[jujubee]

That's a great script StudioDIM. Thanks a bunch! :P

[siliconbauhaus]

brilliant...cheers mate

[EricCamper]

Wow.....Can not believe I never new that was here....Sweet.....Of course I am still on 1.46 with Viz 2006....but it seemed to work anyways....Thanx Studio....from Studio

Sidenote....I went to get my tags on my truck and I wanted to get STUDIO3D as my tag.....well that is too long and the woman wanted to know if I wanted STUD3D....instead....lol.....a little different

Later

[Olli96]

i am late as always...i always use this little script to convert all my materials into vray materials:

for m = 1 to 24 do (meditmaterials[m] = VRayMtl())

just save it and everytime you want 24 vray materials in your mat editor run the script....

Olli

[Dynedain]

If anyone uses the Blur Script Pack (and you should, its very very usefull!) I have modified the ClearMedit script to support Vray materials. When you run the ClearMedit script, you get a popup that allows you to clear out a range of slots in the material editor.

Simply unzip the files to your Scripts folder. It is required that you already have the Blur Script Pack installed as this only adds one file to the "BlurMats" folder and replaces one file in the "BlurScripts" folder.

Download Vray Mod for Blur's ClearMedit(4.5Kb)

[studioDIM]

i am late as always...i always use this little script to convert all my materials into vray materials:

for m = 1 to 24 do (meditmaterials[m] = VRayMtl())

just save it and everytime you want 24 vray materials in your mat editor run the script....

Olli

Aye, that's one of the lines of the above script.
It's just been packaged with a simple three buttons interface, and changes the renderer to VRay (any version, it seems).
Also it adds a multi-sub with vray mats as sub-mats.
Easy stuff, not a real script
There's also a better option in the scripts coming with VRay to convert materials to vray mats and shadows to vray shadows: this one is only good for a fresh scene, really.

Lele

[Candelero]

@ studioDIM

The script you gave is really great.
One question:

Can it be modified like this:
before replacing all the materials in the ME with a clean VRayMtl, to check
first if there are any already set as VRay ones. I mean you have set 1 or 2 already with bitmaps, etc, and all the rest are Standard mats. So when hitting < Switch to VRay > to leave my 2 mats untouched and replace just the non-used ones. That would be really good.

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[studioDIM]

Sure thing, should be fairly simple.
I'll work on it in a minute...

Lele

[Candelero]

Great, thank you!
That would really make it better.

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[studioDIM]

here:http://www.studiodim.it/_download/vrswitcher.ms

It checks for every type of VRay* material, leaving them untouched.
Added a link to the download place in the comments.

As per usual, we're using 1.47.03, so lemme know if there is any material that gets overridden in the future versions (with its name, possibly) so i can fix it to work with future versions.

Lele