Help with Mental Ray 3dsMax 2009: no materials showing in viewport

[benjaminbylund]

Hi, I'm very new to 3dsMAX. Just acquired a fresh version 2009. Taking a basic Autodesk tutorial (2008 book +cd)...using the materials editor to assign basic materials to basic objects...but, nothing is showing up in my viewport, I'm definitely following the tutorial step-by-step......when rendering, I'm getting errors like: MissingMapsPath...its something having to do with my Mental Ray program...Is there something I have to do to load the program? Or change paths? Its a brand new version 2009 so I don't know why I have to dig in and do surgery like this.. any help would be appreciated, thanks

[benjaminbogaert]

If you import a model it might be because the path is set to the previous ' owners ' computer.

 

Go to manage -> Asset Tracking Hit refresh, and see if u get any invalid paths. Right klick the object "set path" and move to the map containing the textures.

 

Hope this helps

[benjaminbylund]

thank you, but I'm so dumb, I can't even find where "manage" is???

[benjaminbogaert]

Can't remember the exact layout from 09, might be under file ( left top corner )

[CJI]

In 2009 asset tracking is under File>Asset Tracking near the bottom. Or press Shift+T.

[Scott Schroeder]

Get the relink bitmaps script, it'll save you hours of asset tracking.

 

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/relink-bitmaps