Material Converters not compatible with 1.5?

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max Issues
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Hello all,

I tried using both the V-Ray Scene Converter and the VRayMtlConverter2 script today with 1.5 and am having no luck. V-Ray Scene Converter doesn’t seem to do anything, and the VRayMtlConverter2 script returns an error exception. Does anyone have a workaround/fix for this? I just got a scene passed to me with 60 or so standard materials, and the prospect of converting them all by hand is unappealing.

I suppose I could reinstall an old build, convert the materials, and then reinstall 1.5. Blah.

Thanks for any help!

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strange…I used the vray scene converter today and it worked.

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It works intermittently. Sometimes if I restart the max scene it will work.

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there have been a couple of changes to the vray material (mostly with the translucnecy) so some of the scripted material convertors will need to be adjusted to allow for the changes to the vray material.

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Thanks for the replies. I ended up quickly installing 1.49.45, converting, then reinstalling 1.5.

Not the most efficient workflow, but it was certainly better than converting all the materials by hand. It just took about 5 minutes, compared to 5 seconds.

~e

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I have this problem with 1.5 too. I don’t have 1.49 so I guess I am stuffed untill a fixed script appears :cry:

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I’m missing the material converter for 1.5 also. It was a huge time saver…

-Greg

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I emailed Chaos and Nikki Candelero is looking into it :slight_smile: