V-Ray Material Override Addition

[snivlem]

Is it possible to add this attribute to the V-Ray material override on the SG node?

A lot of V-Ray plugins produce pure black representations in the Maya viewport and other shaders are quite dark. I think this would be able to improve things if this addition were possible.

Cheers.

[vlado]

I don't think it can be done in this way unfortunately. The viewport display is property of the material itself - it has no way to know if it has been overridden with something else. Will try to think of something else though... Out of curiosity, which materials are black/darker in the viewports? Might be easier to fix these issues rather than coding an override.

Best regards,
Vlado

[snivlem]

Yes, that makes sense now that you have explained it. Thank you Vlado.

The materials that are black/darker in the viewport are just basically highly reflective metals and anything else with a really low diffuse level. (which is really what you would expect I guess).

It's not a big deal though as I can just pipe the VrayMtl through a Blend Mat (which itself has a viewport colour slider so I can override the viewport).

Cheers.

[The other thing that was affecting the viewport colours was gamma correct nodes (but this is now fixed with the "Bitmap input gamma" which I just discovered - thank you for this feature. ]