You cannot just create the material; you have to consider the entire context. If you don’t widen your vision, things can get more complicated than they really are. Finally it’s also very important to work with real pictures as reference, in order to focus on the photographic representation of each material.

In this article, the application of 3ds Max for 3D modelling and rendering of a car model is described. The process of creating a 3D car model is explained as well as setting up the references. Material Removal Rate (MRR), otherwise known as Metal Removal Rate, is the measurement for how much material is removed from a part in a given period of time. Every shop aims to create more parts in a shorter period of time, or to maximize money made while also minimizing money spent. In 3ds Max, open either the Compact Material Editor or Slate and go to the Sample Sphere slots. (In the following example, the Compact Material Editor is shown in 3ds Max 2021, with 24 Physical sample materials loaded.). About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.

Easy Rotate

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dynamically creates scripted custom attributes...
sliders and spinner with linked values laid in a group with optional color tag and progress bars.

- update -
now with preset spinners for position/ rtation/ scale

Base Pivot

This script will set the pivot point of all selected objects to be at the centre of their bases.

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Random Selector

This script allow you to select random vertex-edge-border-face-element parts of the object (it works on Editable Poly converted objects), or objects in the scene. There are three different selection algorithms in vertex-edge-face modes.

Material Override Excluder

Do you use the Vray Material Override to do chalk renders and wish that it would allow you to exclude certain materials? Like VRayLightMtl and any refractive materials like glass? Well now you can using this little script. It sets up a Shell Material which allows you to switch from one material setup to another. So even if those pesky VRayLightMtls and refractive materials are within Multi-sub materials then you’ll still be able to exclude them. Give it a go, test it out and let me know how it works for you!

Export Camera to UE4

Just select cameras(without target) and run the script. Script will create 'Bake Cameras'. Then you will need to export all cam in fbx(-z) and import in UE4.

--Support Target Camera, Free, and animation FoV

Script is free

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PolySelections

Lets you select polys by the number of verts that compose them. So - in an editable poly object - it is easy to select all the polys that have 4 verts - or all the polys that have more than 3 verts - etc...

Holex

Holex is a scripted modifier plugin for 3ds Max which allows users to create various types of holes in polygon meshes. You can create multiple holes or rivets at the same time or individually across multiple objects.

Quad Chamfer

Quad Chamfer is a 3Ds Max script that produce all quad chamfers, unlike the normal 3ds Max chamfer which produces a lot of triangles.

Here are some of the benefits you get:

•You get better results if you use Quad Chamfer in conjunction with turbosmooth

•No more unwanted pinching

•Great topology

•And many more other benefits over the normal chamfer

Optimize Subdivs

All materials in scene are influenced by parameters of Optimize Subdivs.
Script work with vRay Materials.
Do you need to change all Subdivs for all materials?
Optimize Subdivs help you.

Features:
- Optimize Reflection Subdivs of all Materials
- Optimize Refraction Subdivs of all Materials

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An automatic mechanism for generating TX files is not currently supported. However, you can use the external maketx.exe application provided by Solid Angle, and the “image” shader on your material.

When using Arnold it is best to use a tiled mipmapped texture format such as .exr or .tx that has been created using maketx.

.tx textures are:

1. Tiled (usually the tiles are 64×64 pixels).
2. Mip-mapped.

If you already have tiled and mipmapped EXR's that have been created by another renderer, you won't need to convert those files to .tx

Due to (1), Arnold’s texture system can load one tile at a time, as needed, rather than having to wastefully load the entire texture map in memory. This can result in faster texture load times, as texels that will never be seen in the rendered image will not even be loaded. In addition to the speed improvement, only the most recently used tiles are kept in memory, in a texture cache of default size 512 MB (can be tuned via options.texture_max_memory_MB). Tiles that have not been used for a long time are simply discarded from memory, to make space for new tiles. Arnold will never use more than 512 MB, even if you use hundreds or thousands of 4k and 8k images. But then, if you only use a handful of 1k textures, this will not matter.

Due to (2), the textures are anti-aliased, even at low AA sample settings. Neither of these is possible with JPEG or other untiled/unmipped formats (unless you tell Arnold to auto-tile and auto-mip the textures for you, but this is very inefficient because it has to be done per rendered frame, rather than a one-time pre-process with maketx).

It should be worth pointing out that .tx files are basically .exr or .tif files that have been renamed to .tx. This means .tx files can be read by image editors, although you may need to rename the file to .exr or .tif so that the image editor will load it. However, .tx files have a few extra custom attributes set that are not normally included in .exr/.tif files which can make rendering even faster. For instance, they will include a hash so that if you try to load two different files that contain the same data, Arnold only needs to load this data once.

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Benefits of Using .TX

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The first benefit is that you are assured of having mipmaps and tiles. These will dramatically improve time to the first pixel, overall render time, and allow using a smaller texture cache. This should be considered mandatory, with the possible exception being don't use .tx for the few images you are actively modifying if you don't want to wait for them to be constantly converted to .tx every time you make a change.

The previous level you could get from non-tx files that you saved with tiles and mipmapping. The second level of benefit is only with .tx files and that involves maketx adding metadata that lets Arnold make more optimizations, such as being able to detect duplicate textures and only loading a single copy into memory or detecting constant color images, such as an all-black UDIM, and instead of storing all those black pixels in memory Arnold can special case that.

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The example below shows a speed increase of seven times when using .tx files compared to .jpg files:

Manually Generate TX Textures

The process is quite simple. You will need the maketx.exe utility, the texture that needs to be converted, and a dos shell. Below is an example of how you would convert a .tif file to a .tx file.

A tutorial that covers this process can be found here.