Convert Arch and Design Material to Vray material

[wezzard]

Hello everyone, I was looking for a way to convert my A&D mat to Vray mat in my scene. Normally I right clic and choose Vray scene converter, but it would not work with A&D mat..

While looking trough various forum online, i found out that the script is already into vrayutils.ms

 

Open it with Maxscript utility,

(C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2013\scripts\startup).

 

Here's what I did:

 

Erase line #480: if mtl_classid==Arch___Design__mi then return true

 

Erase line #523: -- Do not convert Arch&Design materials - V-Ray supports them directly

 

Erase the -- from line #524: -- Arch___Design__mi: convertFrom_ArchAndDesign orig_mtl (by doing so you convert the line from a comment to command)

 

I would recommend to make a copy of your existing file before doing so, just in case!

 

I hope it will help someone else!

[Bryan Apostol]

Awesome! super helpful

 

thanks! wonder why chaos group decided to leave it out?

 

anyways thanks again for this 'hack'

[nirmalyadasgupta]

Hello everyone, I was looking for a way to convert my A&D mat to Vray mat in my scene. Normally I right clic and choose Vray scene converter, but it would not work with A&D mat..

While looking trough various forum online, i found out that the script is already into vrayutils.ms

 

Open it with Maxscript utility,

(C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2013\scripts\startup).

 

Here's what I did:

 

Erase line #480: if mtl_classid==Arch___Design__mi then return true

 

Erase line #523: -- Do not convert Arch&Design materials - V-Ray supports them directly

 

Erase the -- from line #524: -- Arch___Design__mi: convertFrom_ArchAndDesign orig_mtl (by doing so you convert the line from a comment to command)

 

I would recommend to make a copy of your existing file before doing so, just in case!

 

I hope it will help someone else!

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