evanmoses Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 I'm having a problem with a chrome material applied to this stool that I modeled (which took me forever!). The material on the cylindrical base of the stool is the exact same as that on the thin part surrounding the stool - the part that looks jet black in the renders. I've double checked that it is actually the same material using select by material. So I don't think that it's the material or the vray settings because it comes out fine on the stool's base. Is it a problem with lighting, the object settings, maybe with the model? I have no idea and would really appreciate any help. I really don't want to throw out the stool, but it's pretty useless to me if I can't stop a part that's supposed to be chromish from coming out black. In case it helps, the material is just a standard max material with a multilayered shader (first specular 400, glossiness 90; second specular 30, glossiness 25) with a black diffuse colour and 80% reflection of a vray map with no adjusted settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHolland Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 There you go... it's a compilation of the 15 most used vray matlibs, chrome is in it. Pick it up today, so I can use the dir again. vray matlib Enjoy, Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanmoses Posted March 6, 2005 Author Share Posted March 6, 2005 thanks dennis, I'm going to give it a try. I'll let you know if it helps once I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHolland Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 That's cool Evan, I'll take it of my server now. If you encounter any trouble, just mail and I'll sent you another copy. Let me know if it works out okay? Good luck, Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanmoses Posted March 7, 2005 Author Share Posted March 7, 2005 Hi Dennis, I've figured it out. Like I though it wasn't a problem with the actual material, but it was brutally obvious. I had most of the chair's normals flipped so that it didn't really matter what material I had on it. I'm undergoing the very painful process now of trying to fix it. Thanks for sending the materials though. I hope you don't mind if I continue to use some of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishpalsingh Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 hi DennisHolland i m not able to download vraymat lib., could u plz post it again. thx in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHolland Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Evan, It's good to know that it worked out. Hey listen, I saw the chair and read that you had a hard time to model it. I'm always busy modelling assets while not 'in' a project so I will do that chair for you, it's a copple of minutes work. I like the shape so somewhere today I'll mail you the maxfile. Do with it what you want, same counts for the matlib. (Iwill use that chair too in the future though). Ishpal, the link works again and perhaps there are some more collegues who want to have the compilation. It's just a 'deetee' matlib and it's all over the web but maybe some people don't know it's there. Take care guys, Dennis Dennis de Priester Interactive Media The Netherlands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishpalsingh Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 I GOT IT THNX DennisHolland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanmoses Posted March 7, 2005 Author Share Posted March 7, 2005 Hi Dennis, That's really cool of you to volunteer to model the chair. "A couple minutes" is pretty impressive. My modeling skills are terrible, the chair was actually supposed to be practice, but then it turned into a bit of a mess, as halfway through i usually end up guessing. Once you get yours done, do you mind sharing how you did it. For mine, I made the metal rim by making splines, outlining them, extruding and then joining. For the wood I just extruded the appropriate polygons of the spline across, and the base was the easy part. Any tips would be very useful as it's definitely something that I want to get better at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanmoses Posted March 7, 2005 Author Share Posted March 7, 2005 Oh Dennis, I forgot to tell you that you can find the dimensions for the stool here: http://www.lapalma.it/SGABELLI/LemDATA.htm Hope it helps. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHolland Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Hi Evan, I'll add some screenshots, it's finished tomorrownoon, in vray .mats. The metal rim is way more easy to do, lofting is the key here. Just draw a spline, model it in the right shape, fillet here and there and loft a circle. The seat and stand pretty much speaks for themselves. Consider it done, okay? Take care, Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHolland Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Pick it up Evan, maxfile of the chair chair.zip and a Lofting tutorial Timeframe production = 25 minutes (incl. flash-tut). Any probs or questions? Just let me know.... Take care, Dennis _________________________________ Dennis de Priester Interactive Media The Netherlands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanmoses Posted March 8, 2005 Author Share Posted March 8, 2005 Thanks so much Dennis, You've really been helpful! Attached is the final version of my stool (not as clean as yours, but I think I like the cross-section of the rim as rectangular). Feel free to use it if you want and the same goes for everyone else. Evan PS It was much much faster with lofting this time (around 30 mins) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHolland Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 No need to say thanks Evan, you're welcome. I hope that the loftingtutorial was helpfull. It's just one of the great features in Max and I use it whenever I can, same counts for the lathe modifier. good luck, Dennis __________________________ Dennis de Priester Interactive Media The Netherlands _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
only3d Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 Hi dennis i noticed your gesture of extreme genorousity and thought maybe ull b my saviour.. its been a while now that im trying 2 get a handle on using vray materials, i tried using your mat file (as well as many others) but with no success. at first im getting som kind of notice and after okaying it im getting an empty slotted lib. ive looked 4 solutions and tried alot of things myself but nothing works, im really bummed out so maybe u know wat i can do. im using max6 with vray free (same thing happened with viz4) Tnx in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanmoses Posted March 15, 2005 Author Share Posted March 15, 2005 Hi On, I'm pretty sure that vray free doesn't support vray materials, so that's probably where you're having trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHolland Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 All works fine On, There's no extreme generousity involved here, my friend. This was just a friendly gesture. I'm sure some, if not all, others will agree. if you want to be sure, here's the link for your 'stuff': http://www.evermotion.org/index.php?unfold=download&showdownload=yes Have a ball with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
only3d Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Dennis & Evan- hello 2 u both! Dennis- arent u both working with vray free? i thought u did. even so i still know some people w vray free that are able 2 open mat libs that i cant. now Evan- im not sure how its supposed 2 help me the truth of the matter i tried 2 open the exact same file (vray materials01)from evermotion a while ago (which was 1 of my grand failures) so that didnt solve my problem unfortunatly. any other ideas?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisHolland Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Hi On, I don't have a clue why your friends vray 'free' actually do can open up the material libraries. The only thing that could be possible is that you're missing some dll's in the max-root and plugin folder otherwise it's resitricted to use matlibs in the free version.. I don't work with vray anymore since I have a new network so I can not test it for you. I myself am about to pick up a new set of Brazil r/s instead of vray because of the great experiences with Splutterfish in the past. Even my 4000px Brazil renderings are outsourced to a great renderfarm (respower) up till this day so I'm still renderer-less. I'm sure that if you start a thread about this issue, there are usually some friendly people to help you out. Good luck with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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