Crazy Homeless Guy Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 this is a small tip for those who use architectural materials with Vray. i used to have to flip flop between what rendering engine displayed my material previews in order to see architectural materials and vray materials both. when one was displayed, the other was black, and vice versa. about a month ago i realized that if you turn off the backlight feature for the architectural material, the vray material preview engine will display the material correctly in the preview material dialog. the material i am using is gray, but it works for textured materials and what have you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 good spot CGH! i'm sure it'll be handy for lots of people out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlitos Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Why do you use architectural materials as opposed to vray materials. Is there a benifit to using architectural materials? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunDon Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Personally I don't use non-VRay materials in any of my projects now -- unless I know for sure that I won't be using the lightcache. But one can never be sure you won't need to switch around your indirect illumination settings, so I try not to deviate from this rule. Shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 i don't use a lot of arch materials, but i do occasionally use them. they are still in some models that i created before i was usign vray on a regular basis. even after i started using vray, i still used arch mats if i knew what i wanted to acheive, but wasn't sure how to do it with vray mats. a fair amount of people post a question on why they can not see their materials, etc.. this was posted to provide a quick method for them. ..but, what i would like to see is someone who is using vray free to post here, and tell us if this method works for them. someone posted on the board yesterday, complaining about vray forcing their arch mats to go black. could you test this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Personally I don't use non-VRay materials in any of my projects now -- unless I know for sure that I won't be using the lightcache. But one can never be sure you won't need to switch around your indirect illumination settings, so I try not to deviate from this rule. Shaun i didn't know this was a problem when using lightcache. what does it do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayadams Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 query: How do you use arch materials in VRAY w/o the 'overbright' error and looking goofy? I am still in the throws of my lightscape to Vray migration. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Jay Adams:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Saunders Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 i use vray adv at work and vray free at home. i just checked and the same result occurs with vray free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 i use vray adv at work and vray free at home. i just checked and the same result occurs with vray free. You know, it is within the EULA to install viz advanced at home too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Saunders Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 You know, it is within the EULA to install viz advanced at home too. i assume you meant vray advanced? butah no i didn't know. as far as i know chaos requires a new license purchase to install and run vray on any additional systems. even at work, i can only use my other computers as render slaves while vray is activated on my primary system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zdravko Barisic Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 this is a small tip for those who use architectural materials with Vray. I even didnt know that it is possible to use ArchMat w/ Vray! I tried but I didnt see nothing or result was incorrect at all Is there some special settings?! in Mat slot/render dialog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted December 15, 2005 Author Share Posted December 15, 2005 I even didnt know that it is possible to use ArchMat w/ Vray! I tried but I didnt see nothing or result was incorrect at all Is there some special settings?! in Mat slot/render dialog? well, the Vray people definetly won't recomend it, and several people say they cause errors, but I use them somewhat regylarly with no roblem. although when i use them they are no more special than a special than standard mat. maybe if you are using special features of arch mats they do not work correctly, i am not sure. attached is a arch mat, but again it is nothing more than set to arch material, and a wood texture applied to it. nothing procederal or any of that jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siliconbauhaus Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 if you email ChaosGroup with you license details they will give you a license for you home machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 if you email ChaosGroup with you license details they will give you a license for you home machine. Is there validity to this statement or am I reading it incorrectly?? Our company has three liscenses for our in house visualization team. Are you trying to say that I could get a liscense to use myself at home? Does anyone have this arrangement as well??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Saunders Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 just today i got the authorization from Tedi. He says they only want you using one at a time though, because that is all one lisence is good for (one session running vray). any other questions about that pm me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renderbeads Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Hi all, could someone share architectural materials here. I need it badly for a school project. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 you can find your architectural matts in the matlibs folder in max. you can load them into the max material editor by opening up your material map browser, check 'mtl library' under 'Browse from' and then select 'open' under 'file'. here you will find different arch mattt libraries, also, you will find the AEC templates. enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renderbeads Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Koper, Thanks for replying. But my matlibs folder has nothing inside. I'm using max8 a trial version. Could you share them please including the jpegs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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