More than 15 Mat-ID channels possible?

[max.m]

Can someone tell me if there is any possibility to have more than the current 15 material ID Channels?

I use the material ID channels in combination with the multimatterenderelements, and sometimes in complex projects 15 mat ID`S are not enough.

So i have to define 2 Materials on one channel, which works in general, but it would be nicer if had more channels.

I guess that there is no possibility for more than 15 channels in max, but maybe someone can tell me his workaround when he needs more then 15 materialmasks.

I work with 3ds max 9 and Vray 1,5 sp4a

 

Best Regards

Max

[cgrant3d]

This limitation is within the 3ds Max UI and is rather old functionality (anybody remember when the mat id flyout was added? it's been many years) ... I requested the ability to override the mat id from within the VRay material itself thus giving us as many mat id's as we need. I haven't seen it myself but it's been added to current builds / future releases of VRay.

 

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?51468-Option-to-override-material-effect-id

[max.m]

thanks for the info chris,

got the info of vlado that it will be inbuild in vray2,0.

 

Best regards,

Markus