Architectural Materials

[emortal]

I've just installed Architectural Materials plugin into my 3ds max 7 but when i go to select an arch materials all of the samples are not there & are relaced with just black spheres.

 

can any1 help please???

[Kibble]

have you checked to see if the textures are in the archmat file? in max\\maps\ArchMat

[emortal]

yes i think they are but i'm not at my home computer at the moment. have you any suggestions to resolve this problem if there materials are there or if they are there?

[notamondayfan]

do u mean the samples are appearing black in the material editor?

 

if so, unclick the Backlight button (2nd one down on the right of the mat editor)

[nisus]

Hi

 

I don't know what renderer you use, but if you use MR DO NOT use the arch.materials. It's searching prob! ,-)

 

rgds,

 

nisus

[Ricardo Eloy]

Same with VRay.

[nisus]

looooooooooooooooooooooool...

 

bascily: the idea is good, you do not need to know materials to get good looking stuff... BUT it does not work that way... they are HARD to tweak and generate A LOT of artifacts...

 

so no go!

 

nisus

[abicalho]

Which architectural materials are you talking about? MAX 7 comes with Architectural Materials out of the box, there's no need to install any plugin. Mental Ray and Scanline support them entirely without problems.

[nisus]

Hi Alex,

 

Yes the ones out of 7 I meant. I found them hard to tweak: wood did not look like wood, nor did the ceramics or stones, plaster... Hard to tweak the speculars, because they are bound with the refraction index...

And there was the black dot issue!!

 

But than again, I also changed my lighting setup completely after using them, so maybe now they would work...

Do yo uuse them a lot? Do you have a sample with them?

 

rgds,

 

nisus