Default color when texture is missing

[Julien BOLBACH]

Hi,

I have a collection of assets that share the same shaders, but they don't have necessarily the same textures. Is there a way to specify a default color when this is happening ? At the moment, Vray picks a black color ...

Thanks a lot,

Julien

[vlado]

We just follow what the Maya software/mental ray renderers do (which is to return black). You can check the V-Ray output for missing textures though - there will be warnings about them.

Best regards,
Vlado

[snivlem]

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/sc...texturemanager

Try out this script, you can use it before rendering and it will list all missing texturs and paths. I think Autodesk wrote their own for Maya 2014, but its always never as good as the 3rd party code.

[Julien BOLBACH]

Thanks for this, but I don't think it would help me on this case.

My textures file paths look something like :
<TexturePath>/color/<UDIM>.exr
with <TexturePath> being a vrayUserAttribute in each vrayProxy in my scene pointing to the proper texture directory of my asset
So it's only evaluated in rendertime by vray. I guess there is nothing I can do inside maya, as maya doesn't understand this path.

It would be nice to be able to add a vrayAttribute on the file node to override the default color when the texture is not found.

Cheers,

Julien

[vlado]

Specifically for the case of UDIM textures, V-Ray will actually use the default color if a texture is missing. Which build are you using?

Best regards,
Vlado

[Julien BOLBACH]

We are using this build : 20130914
But I've already asked to update it to the latest available nightly build. Do you think it will help ?

Thanks,

Julien

[vlado]

We are using this build : 20130914

Stable or nightly? The change might be in the nightlies only.

Best regards,
Vlado