Option to override material effect id

[cgrant3d]

Material effect id's are a huge part of creating matte's while rendering - however 3ds Max only allows the user to assign up to 15 material effect id's. It'd be awesome if within the VRayMtl options rollout there was a checkbox to "override effect id" then we could use 0-65,000 to create as many material matte's as needed.

Mockup below. The "Effect ID" spinner would be disabled unless the "OVerride material effect ID" option was ticked.

[vlado]

Thanks for the suggestion; I didn't realize this was limited to 15 in the interface; internally V-Ray can work with any 32-bit integer for this, so it should not be hard to implement.

Best regards,
Vlado

[cgrant3d]

That's great to hear! Hopefully that turns out to be the case - it'd be a huge improvement for our workflow and I suspect for many other studios too.

[vlado]

So this is now done for newer builds.

Best regards,
Vlado

[cgrant3d]

Wow! Thanks!

[Donald2B]

This will be fantastic! Thanks for the suggestion Christopher! And thanks to Vlado for implementing this!

This will be a huge time saver for us and we can now fully get away from object IDs.

[armilla]

This sounds great! Is there a new build of VRay 1.5 with this implemented, or will I need to wait until 2.0 is released? Many thanks.

[vlado]

Right now this is only in V-Ray 2.0; the 1.5 branch only gets bug fixes.

Best regards,
Vlado

[max montana]

Perfect, thanks to christopher for the incentive and thanks to vlado for fixing it fast!!!
I was waiting for a long time for a possibility to get more than 15 mat id`s.
T H A N K Y O U

[m_hinks]

Ha, only just discovered this feature! Perfect! I have been running out at 15 and starting on object ids, ever again!

To confirm, you simply leave all the 3dsmax material effects id at 0 and number them all up through the option, overide material effect tick box?

Perfect again!

[vance3d]

What the hell? I hate it when I overlook an awesome feature!

V Miller

[vlado]

To confirm, you simply leave all the 3dsmax material effects id at 0 and number them all up through the option, overide material effect tick box?

This is correct, yes.

Best regards,
Vlado