3D Max 2021. Vray 6.
Tested on two machines and problem is 100% there. I cannot right click in my VrayBlend material editor anymore to copy/paste coat materials or blend maps. Same with the base materialc slot. Once I have a vray material assigned and am working within that I can right click again.
This is a big problem becasue I tend to copy/paste my materials and now cannot.
I can right click on areas outside the actual slots. Somehow only the slots are not fuctional.
Actually it’s a bit more than what you found, at least for me.
If there is a map in a blend slot, then the only right click option available is ‘clear’ whereas there should be a list of usual options.
With the base, the paste options are missing and with coat there is only ‘clear’ (if a mat already there).
This is with Max 23 and Vray 6 compared to Max 21 with Vray 5, 2.2
Hi this is caused by updates in the user interface. It is now using QT for better performance.
To add a bit to this (and sorry for putting part of the blame to others again:) ):
- For Max 2022 and 2023 we have some changes in mind that should fix the issues
- For older maxes - there’s not much we can do. The problem is that in those Max versions Max itself doesn’t support some of the possible controls in their Qt implementation. We ended up needing to implement the texture/material buttons from scratch and some of the functionalities (copy/paste f.e) are not exposed in the 3ds Max API at all so we can’t implement them.
Just to clarify, there’s nothing wrong when using Max 21 and Vray 5. I couldn’t check 22 as I have 6 installed.
V-Ray 5 is using the old controls for the blend material. We updated it only in V-Ray 6.
Yeah from what I am hearing. If you are using 3d max 2021 than Vray 6 is not fully compatible and time to update 3d max.
Shame…
Hm we might have found a solution for older Max versions too but it will take a few more days.
You always come in with good news!!! lol.
Thank you,
Today’s stable builds 31557 (Chaos) should contain some improvements here too.
Hello yavor,
I downloaded the hotfix 2 which was uploaded to main download site. Right click still not functional in Vray blend on max 2021.
Was this reverted back on the official release not to work again? 
Was this reverted back on the official release not to work again?
Works perfectly with 3ds max 2022/2023 and latest public build.
Yes, Yavor mentioned the bug was with max 2021. Thats why I am asking since I still use 2021.
The fixes only help for the texture buttons (the blend amount textures f.e). Unfortunately for material buttons - it is up to Autodesk.
So I am a little lost. Previous Vray it was working with and new Vray it doesn’t work. I did not update anything in Autodesk. Using same version of Autodesk, just new version of Vray. Yet somehow Autodesk did this? :roll:
Previous version of the blend material used the old style native Windows controls. Newer versions use Qt controls. 3ds Max itself is migrating away from the native Windows controls to Qt so we have to rewrite our controls too.
So, with the current state of the Blend Material, it is not possible to paste into the base material slot? If not how does one instance a material in there using the CME? First time I have never had access to right click menu in CME using 2022.3 and vray 6.2
you can use the following workaround for now :
1- copy the materiel that you want to add to the base
2-put any material in the base ( default Vraymtl will do )
3- double click to “dive” into the base material property
4-paste the material that you want to have into the top right button as image below
Thanks that worked. Hope the old behaviors can be restored.
Hello again.
So I upgraded to Max 2023 and latest vray. I am in Vray blend. Still having right click issues.
I can right click ont he blend amount map slot. that works.
Coat Materials I cannot right click on empty slots. I can right click on a material which already has a material, but for whatever reason it doesn’t allow me to paste instance.
So yeah, still broken…
Video showing the problem to help explain better visually speaking,
Thanks in advance!
