Default material/render settings?

[simonbjork]

Is the a way to customize the default material/render settings? Like in Nuke where you can have a python scripts that runs at startup and sets default values when creating a new material.

[vladimir.nedev]

You can customize the default scene, by going to Preferences -> Defaults -> Application -> Default Scene (near the bottom) .
In the selected scene you can have any render settings you want or materials in the Shader Tree.

If you want to have different default values each time when creating a new material, you could create a Preset with the required values and use that instead of directly creating the material.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[simonbjork]

Thanks for your reply Vladimir. Yes, the default scene is nice but I'm looking for default values each time a material is created. I guess this is more of a limitation of Modo than it is of Vray.

[vladimir.nedev]

It will probably be best to use MODO's material preset system for this.
It allows you to even add default textures, for example a diffuse texture with an UV test image.

We could add an additional preset system that handles only the channel values for the selected material.
Basically a drop-down in the beginning of the Properties UI for each V-Ray material/texture.
The drop-down lets you load a set of channel values, or save the current ones as a preset file somewhere in your user's folder.

It might be possible to have an option to select a preset as the default to use after a new material/texture is created. I need to check the MODO API to make sure this can be done.

It seems redundant to implement a system like this though. Apart from the convenience of using a simple drop-down directly in the Properties UI and the default channel values on material creation that you want,
all of this (and more) can be done using MODO's material presets.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[Guilherme]

Hi Vladimir,
Will V-Ray for Modo get the V-Ray Quick Settings, like 3ds Max? If they are already there, where? Thanks.

[vladimir.nedev]

Hi Vladimir,
Will V-Ray for Modo get the V-Ray Quick Settings, like 3ds Max? If they are already there, where? Thanks.

Yes, eventually, not sure when though.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[simonbjork]

Yes I agree. I'll have a look at modo's built in preset system.

And probably file a feature request to the modo team to implement Nuke style defaults at startup. This would allow you you do thing like this in a python file that runs at startup (made up Nuke syntax):

modo.knobDefault(material.roughness, 20)
modo.knobDefault(vrayMaterial.reflectionColor, [1,1,1])

But yeah, maybe I'm just to biased in the way Nuke works .

Thanks!