Material Override Excluder

By the way: it would be nice to have the possibility to save and load presets, so the user doesn't have to repeat the same steps each time he uses the script :)

Thank you

corona renderer!

I found the following bug:
_ when I setup a VRayMtl with let's say a pink color on the diffuse slot and a refractive value of 0.5, this material is not overriden (assume that "keep Refractive VRayMtls" is ticked), but the wrapped material created by the script ignores the diffuse color.

Max.. There is an option which sets the refractions to monochrome, untick this if you want to keep the colour.

Ah ! Ok, sorry I didn't notice that.
It works fine, thank you Dave :)

Hi,

Just to let you know that I tested the script with Multiscatter and it seems to work fine so far.
In my projects I sometimes use RailClone too, so it would be nice if you could have your script working with it too :)

I can't make the script work well with VrayProxy vegetation (only trunk get white, the rest is rendered as usual). Any ideas why?

This is so useful. Thanks for doing it!

One question: I'm having trouble getting the override to work with Forest Pack Pro objects, namely the grass which still renders with it's material. Any idea why this might be?

Thanks again

Ah yes, pesky ForestPro with it's bizarre way of storing materials internally... I'll look into it, should be fairly simple to do.

I guess I'll need to check RailClone and PFlow as well.

Hi Dave,

Your script is really great but it does not work with objects that don't have any material assigned (ok I understand it is impossible to create a shell material without any base material). That's a point you could try to improve.

Another thing: I need some help with the use of wildcards. The script works well when using a single string like *glass*, but when I enter let's say 3 strings, like for example *glass* *arch* *concrete*, the script does not work anymore: these materials are then replaced by the override one which is not what I want. I must do something wrong here: can you please help me ?

Thank you so much !

Good ideas, I'll cover off the no material override pretty easily.

For your other suggestion I'll add it so it can take comma separated entries. Example...
*Glass*,*arch*,*concrete*

Will that work for you?

Also I need to cover XRefScene materials as well and make sure groups are working too.

Thank you Dave: that would work for me :)

Now works on objects with no materials applied to them.

Hi Dave,

Thank you for the great work !
I downloaded the last 1.3 version, but when I drag and drop the .mcr on the 3dsmax viewport, I have the following Maxscript FileIn Exception error: "-- Syntax error: at<, expected -- in line:

So I didn't go further with new version and didn't test it yet.
... is this message normal ?

Hmmm... it worked for me, try again with the latest version.

I've added the multiple text input using commas "*Glass*,*water*" and also made the script work with XRefScenes as well.

I closed 3dsmax, and manually deleted the old .mcr, then I opened 3dsmax again, draged and droped the new .mcr and now I have the script working fine :)

I really appreciate it so far but one thing that is still missing (at least to me) is when dealing with big scenes containing a lot of various vegetation objects for example, coming from various providers. In such a situation, I think you will agree that it is a pain to rename one by one each material you want to exclude from the override setup whereas all of these objects are probably already stored in only few layers ... So it would be much easier, to exclude such objects, to have the possiblity to exclude entire layers lists of objects rather than doing it only by their material names ... I know it is probably a bit complicated to script but it would definitely give a lot more interest to your script which is already very helpful.
As I know you are also working on another script called Include/Exclude: maybe you could make the two ones working together ? Or making just one awesome script that would do both jobs ?

Anyway, thank you again Dave !

I'm designing this to be used with the Include / Exclude system I'm developing. I'll somehow merge the two scripts at some point.

That would be awesome !!
I am ready to wait a little bit more to see that :)
Thank you again,
Cheers

Should I default the script to get the material from the VRay Material Override Slot in the render settings dialog rather than getting from first slot in the material editor samples?

Yes Dave: personally I think it would be better if the script would pick the material from the VRay Material Override Slot in the render settings dialog. It seems more handy to me.

Big bug where the script only worked when you had 'Get Object Exclude from VRay' on if you had objects listed in your VRayMaterialOverride Inc/Exc list.

Small bug with using VRayMaterialOverride Material.

And put in protection to force user to use a VRayMtl Material.

I think that would be very useful to setup quick scene for lighting balance on gray model .. Thank you so much for that