some questions...

[MulinoBianco]

3ds max 2011

hi everyone

i didn't want to open a lot of threads so I'll use this one to ask a few questions

1. can someone explain me step by step how can i save materials in my material lib. for example I don't have no more empty slots and i need to insert some new material,how can i do it?I am clicking copy or something like that but i don't have an idea what i am doing

2.i need to incut some text in box,but then i need to add turbosmooth modifier,i know how it works but i need to add a lot of segments,does anyone know some tutorial or have some idea for doing this,so i want to get some smooth result of text incuted in surface

thanks a lot to everyone

[Bruce Hart]

Hi Dusan

If you want to work on a new material in the Editor, select a swatch and hit the red X button to clear it. Provide a new material name and you can go from there.

 

As for your your text - you could try a quadify mesh modifier to the object to give turbosmooth some polygons to work with. This will have the effect of filleted corners. If it's only a small fillet you need to show, you could try a rounded corner shader.

[MulinoBianco]

thank's for your reply

as for materials i know that, but the previous material in my material lib needs to be saved,I don't want to loose it,if i get new material on the old one it changes it right?

and where can i find option in 3ds max 2011 "get material from selected" i used this in 3ds max 2009 to control what material is assigned

thanks!

[SgWRX]

if i understand correctly, you should be able to 'get material' in a sample slot that already has another material and it does not affect the material in the scene. so lets say you have brick in the material editor sample slot and aluminum in the scene. if you get the aluminum material where the brick is, it won't affect the scene or brick material.

 

as far as saving to mat lib, i do it by clicking on the 'get material' and that opens up my list of library's then i right-click on the name of the library and that gives me options, under the options i go to the first in the list which shows a path c:\whatever\whatever... and that's where i can save that library.

 

i actual ran into a problem a while ago in Max9 where i found that the lib file (.mat file) was set to 'read only'. so the save never worked. so now i make sure the file is read-write before i try and save to it.