Material changes name on import

[Boye]

I've downloaded two nice looking carbon fiber materials from the site. When unzipping, I discovered one of them had a name like C.F.vismat. I usually try to avoid dots (period or full stop) in file names (apart from the file type separator), so I renamed the file, but when I import it in the VfR material rollout, it automatically changes it's name to C.F.Finalx. I find it a bit strange - could anyone explain to me why this happens?

(Also - the other one 'carbon fiber 2' makes my Rhino crash. I import the material and update the map paths, because I have all maps in a specific location, but when I try to render - or even update the preview of the map file (fresnel colour bitmap) I get a runtime error.)

This last problem is now solved. It was caused by jpeg bitmaps saved in 'optimized' and 'progressive' mode

[dkendig]

Re: Material changes name on import

the name of the material isn't based upon the file name. You can rename a .visopt to whatever you want, but when you load it, it will have whatever name it had when the material was saved out.

[Boye]

Re: Material changes name on import

Thanks - interesting. The way to deal with it seems to be to rename the material in the rollout and then re-export it if you want to rename it.