Material previews with arbitrary shapes

[Avan]

Guys! How i can see something else except a box or sphere or cylinder? I can rotate them, but other...where?)

[Ondra]

in the 3dsmax options dialog you can load custom scene

[Avan]

Wow! I found. I thought it will be 3dmax primitives...lol. Realy great thing!

[digimas]

need pony primitive in material editor and corona objects...

[maru]

Good idea. We need a parametric primitive like blender's ape and max's teapot. We have mandelbulb but maybe let's set up a contest?

[lacilaci]

parametric pony primitive :D

[Avan]

 I found some models on makerbot`s site. Simply open and resave in .max file. You can use this for primitive ;)

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:25282/#files

[digimas]

I found some models on makerbot`s site. Simply open and resave in .max file. You can use this for primitive ;)

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:25282/#files

It's looks realy cool for tests...opacity, sss, dirt, shadows etc will be better on this model

[Ondra]

neat!

[annetkus]

Hi! It's great, I found how to load custom scene, but it is in Compact material editor mode! How can I rotate and change object in Slate mode?
thank You!

[Ludvik Koutny]

Hi! It's great, I found how to load custom scene, but it is in Compact material editor mode! How can I rotate and change object in Slate mode?
thank You!

You can not... Thanks to Autodesk ;)

[Arttu Koskela]

That's super useful Keymaster! Actually been using only sphere preview all these years.

[maru]

That's super useful Keymaster! Actually been using only sphere preview all these years.

How does this prove custom objects are useful? :)

[Arttu Koskela]

How does this prove custom objects are useful? :)

I don't know about you but I usually create materials in separate scene with a studio lighting setup and for this I tend to use some more complicated object than a sphere to better understand how the light will reflect and refract.
With custom preview I can use the same object for previewing and hopefully need to click render fewer times. :)

A question vaguely related to this thread: Is it possible to adjust the preview scale like you can with the default preview from Compact Material Editor -> Options -> Render Sample Size ?
Doesn't seem to be working with custom MTL preview.

[Volodymyr.Lysak.STEALTH]

Hi guys. I've created a custom shape for material preview. Maybe you will like it and you want to use it as the default preview. I would like to :)
It also could be used to create a library of materials (if it is planned ...)

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