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I think NL Team should seriously think of making an official Maxwell mat converter. This would be great, especially for standard and mental ray materials (Arch/Design, Promaterials, etc...) and if possible other famous renderers like Vray...

There are millions of free models out there... Even most of the commercial products don't include maxwell mats or mxs models so this would be really useful... Even if we have to make some adjustments for the final result.

yes, especially v-ray to maxwell would be great!!! could save soooo much time, even if the materials wouldn't be perfect but with all textures in the right slots and basic material settings...

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Would be very nice. I enjoy downloading the scenes from 3D World magazine's cd's that come with the mag but they're always in mental ray, scanline, or vray formats, material-wise. It's a pain to open them up in 3ds Max and then completely redo the materials. As was mentioned even if the diffuse maps would transfer over as they should, it would be a huge help.

-Brodie

JTB wrote:This is a surprise!
Only two people want this?

+ Mum always said I was worth a hundred!!!

It would be nice for a quick preview rendering of the converted scene, but I wouldn't trust any material converter for precise materials. I prefer to manually convert them.

Yeah but man so many materials may well still be useable without tweaking, you'd know soon as you run a test!

JTB wrote:I think NL Team should seriously think of making an official Maxwell mat converter

+1 !!!

For the last 3-4 days I 've been working on some interiors and all the models I find have either standard or vray mats... I calculated that it took me more than 30% of my time to re-assign and test maxwell mats to these models...
A material converter would be a really great tool

i agree something like that would be very helpful.. like polytrans for materials..

but don't you think this is a typical case for 3rd party software?

i mean.. if you program something like that.. it should work in both directions.. and should be open to any material system.

also i have no clue about how proprietary mat files are,.. if a "foreign" software is even allowed to create a certain file type??

theres loads of tools that do this - look on Scriptspot. Problem is of course that i dont think they have been updated - they are probably all pre-Version 2 of maxwell - right ?

+1
.. more tools would be handy

lchest wrote:theres loads of tools that do this - look on Scriptspot. Problem is of course that i dont think they have been updated - they are probably all pre-Version 2 of maxwell - right ?

Exactly, and almost all of them are for previous versions of MAX so there are some maxscript errors too...

oh yes I am just curious how NL would "translate" common used and very usefull falloff map with "noreal-gradient"

It's not a case of "What NL can't do", it is what they CAN do to improve our workflow...