A quick tip for anyone who buy's this material pack (and you should, it's excellent):
If you find that when you copy one of the materials to your own scene, the image maps don't come with it, or, if you drag them to the browser and they look dull instead of shiny, here's the fix:
Note this is nothing wrong with the pack at all, it's the same for any materials and it's how you have set up C4D.
- Assuming you have all the metal materials in a folder on your drive somewhere, that you unzipped when you bought it, do a quick search in the enclosing folder to find all the 'tex' folders.
- Now open C4D 'preferences > files > paths ' and drag all the 'tex' folders you just found to the files dialog (see my grab). It is possible to just add the enclosing folder to paths, but I find that having all the extra files to search through slows the browser down a bit.
- Quit and re-open C4D and now everything will work perfectly.
Also, if you want to drag them all to the browser for easy finding later, open all the provided material scenes, then (and this is important!) hold down alt/opt as you drag the materials to the browser. This ensures that the associated texture maps stay in their original places and don't get copied to the lib folder and make it massive (there are GB's of them). See other grab.
hope that helps!
Cheers