2024, and why don’t we have a material converter that converts Autodesk materials?
3ds Max’s native Scene Converter can convert them to Physical/Standard and from there you can use ours.
I use V-RayMax Converter Pro for this.
As far as I remember, you also have it, doesn’t it do what you need?
Me too, but should we have to? When I need to use it, it wants to update, and then I need to license it. We know it can be done, so why can’t Choas do it natively?
Yes, after the update you need to enter a license key, but this is not a problem since I have it. You can also disable checking for updates there and continue to use the converter without updating (if this is not critical for you) and update later when you want. By the way, I wrote to the developers about this and they assured me that in the next update you will not have to enter the license key again if you have already activated it.
As for the fact that the built-in Vray Scene Converter does not support converting Autodesk materials, I agree with you, this is strange. It was the absence of many things in Vray Scene Converter that pushed me to buy V-RayMax Converter Pro and now it really saves me.
Been using Universal Material Converter for a number of years. Pretty good, but it’s node locked. Every single project I work on starts life as an imported Revit Model, and I’m perplexed that there are not straight forward ways to convert Autodesk Generic Materials to Vray, without buying a script. I’ve even tried to get ChatGPT to write something, but it never works properly in my attempts at least. That V-RayMax Converter Pro URL is flagged as malicious in my attempts to look at it
I also used UMC before, but after it I often had to edit and recreate the resulting materials, because they lost some textures and some properties were transferred incorrectly. V-RayMax Converter Pro does not have this problems and all materials are as they should be.
This is the trick of your antivirus software, which often plays it safe and makes mistakes. As far as I know, this is the official site of the converter and there is nothing dangerous there. You can always check the url on the Virus Total site and make sure that it is safe.
For the record: there is no need to buy a third party tool for this as it was mentioned.
Use the 3dsMax converter first, and the V-Ray one afterwards.
For those with the script, it would be nice if you guys could make a comparison between the two workflows (Autodesk Converter + V-Ray converter VS Vray-Max Converter PRO) as to see if there are any visible differences. I was looking into buying this but I’d like to avoid relying too much on external tools, especially if it can be done without.
I don’t have time for a comparison but I can vouch for the 3rd party tool mentioed. It does a lot more than what the Autodesk converter does and the conversion from corona to vray is excellent.