Vray material resources

[PiotrJ]

Hi,
I am new to Vray and found this great site with vray materials: https://www.vray-materials.de . Unfortunately they all seem to be suited for 3ds max as they have .mat extension which I was not able to import into modo. Does anyone know if there is a way to import those materials to Modo or if there are maybe other sites with Vray materials availible to download. Thanks in advance!

[Robert]

There is one for Modo from Richard Yot, that covers most basic materials, but its not free. here: https://community.foundry.com/discus...by-richard-yot

One problem in general for V-Ray is that there tons of settings that you won't need ever. So at first you might think that you have to learn a lot, but its not so much in the end.
If you have the chance try to get some vrscene export from 3dsmax with many materials, like an Evermotion scene, etc. Here you can learn how the shaders been setup, but even then there are many things you won't need. For example the color correct nodes in shaders are not really important, as you can do that in the Modo bitmap settings. Or the blend shader, that is basically there because default V-Ray shader can't do a Coating. However the newer alShader does that well.
Or the glossy fresnel option that is now build in the default shader etc.
On start you actually don't need any V-Ray shaders, except you want to do Volume or SSS effects.

[PiotrJ]

Thank You Robert!
Yes, comparing that to Modo materials it seems like the Vray materials are much more complex. I will give it a shot though. Thanks for the Richard Yot link!

[ModelT]

There is one for Modo from Richard Yot, that covers most basic materials, but its not free. here: https://community.foundry.com/discus...by-richard-yot
If you have the chance try to get some vrscene export from 3dsmax with many materials, like an Evermotion scene, etc.

Is it totaly compatible vrscene from 3dsmax? Is it open exactly the same? always want to use evermotion library into modo.

[vladimir.nedev]

Is it totaly compatible vrscene from 3dsmax? Is it open exactly the same? always want to use evermotion library into modo.

You can check this docs page to see what's supported : https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...vrscene+Import

You can check this forum thread to see some examples of whole Evermotion scenes imported into Modo using .vrscene exported from 3ds Max : https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...import-command
Note that the forum thread starts with the initial version and then there are further posts from me as new features are supported by the importer.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev