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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] Feature Requests => [Max] Resolved Feature Requests => Topic started by: vkiuru on 2014-06-12, 08:33:03

Title: An option to have unsupported materials defaulted to a neutral gray
Post by: vkiuru on 2014-06-12, 08:33:03
It's sometimes a pain in the ass in Max to go through an imported Revit file with one hundred unsupported materials, because they show up bright red while rendering. Maybe an option to override them to a neutral gray would make sense?
Title: Re: An option to have unsupported materials defaulted to a neutral gray
Post by: fellazb on 2014-06-12, 09:37:45
If you use the material convertor script then there shouldn't be any unsupported materials anymore. If so, could you specify which materials aren't supported? AFAIK all the autodesk materials that are in Revitfiles are being supported now.
Title: Re: An option to have unsupported materials defaulted to a neutral gray
Post by: Ondra on 2014-06-12, 09:51:38
Yes, use material convertor. The unsupported materials render with very distinct color to prevet errors from using unconverted materials.
Title: Re: An option to have unsupported materials defaulted to a neutral gray
Post by: racoonart on 2014-06-12, 11:10:02
The material converter also has an option to convert ANY class to a default gray corona Mtl, even "Missing_Mtl" (from a missing renderer which dlls are not present anymore). It's a button on the right called "convert by class"
Title: Re: An option to have unsupported materials defaulted to a neutral gray
Post by: vkiuru on 2014-06-12, 11:12:46
The material convertor is a 3rd party plugin, I was hoping for a more integrated solution - you are right, it does do the trick but then again it's not 100% reliable and once you go commercial you can't expect people to search up community made plugins for stuff like this, imo.
Title: Re: An option to have unsupported materials defaulted to a neutral gray
Post by: racoonart on 2014-06-12, 11:15:24
Well, if it's not reliable: report it ;) I can fix bugs I'm aware of, but not the ones I don't know about. And about 3rd party, it's included in Corona A6+, so you don't need to download anything anywhere.