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Material Texture Loader

By DMZScripts · Credited author: David Zaagsma · 2019-03-17

Version
v1.830
Version requirement
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Date updated
2024-05-06
Votes
9
Homepage
https://github.com/DMZScripts/MaterialTextureLoader/blob/main/README.md
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Description

Description
  The Material Texture Loader loads in textures and instantly creates advanced materials.
  Use pre-defined or customized map and material settings to build re-usable material setups.
  Fully supports Vray, Corona, Redshift, Arnold, FStorm, Physical, Octane, and Standard map and materials.
 
Main Features
  • Automatic texture channel recognition 
  • Parameter linking for all texture mappings
  • Predefined Color-spaces: ACEScg - sRGB - linear-sRGB - Raw - Gamma - Auto
  • Mapping: Tiling - Real-world - Tri-Planar -  Random Rotation - Spherical
  • Live edit settings and disable channels
  • 2-Sided materials
  • MaxScript commands
  • UDIM map loading
  • Drag and Drop
  • Presets
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Latest version: 1.830
More Features
  • Quick texture selection per channel
  • PBR, Specular and Metallic workflow support
  • Composite maps: Color/AO - Normal/Bump - Specular/Metallic
  • Materials parameters: Color - Reflection - Glossiness - IOR - ID
  • Map parameters: 
  • Per channel strength, color-space and gamma adjustment
  • Add displacement and UVW Map modifiers and control the displacement height and offset
  • Show material preview and texture channels in viewport 
  • Save Preview Thumbnail
  • Save material to material library
  • Add materials and maps to Slate or Compact material editors

Support

  • 3ds max 2016 to 2025.
  • VRay(3-6), Corona(5-11), Redshift, Arnold, FStorm, Octane, Physical, PBR and Standard materials and maps.
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Change Log

06-05-2024 update 1.830

  • 3ds max 2025 support
  • Color-space setting (ACEScg, sRGB, sRGB-linear, Raw, Gamma)
  • 6 new MaxScript commands
  • Help Documentation
  • Redshift Mesh Parameter modifier fix

22-08-2023 update 1.8x

  • 3ds max 2024 support
  • Redshift RS_Standard_Material
  • Spherical mapping
  • sRGB color space (instead of manual gamma 2.2)
  • Octane, Redshift ACES color space
  • Redhsift 3.5+ displacement strength
  • Arnold rotate maps
  • Unistall methods
  • API 'isOpen', 'addToSlate' functions

09-03-2023 update 1.7x

  • API maxscript commands
  • Use all map channels
  • Live update when switching presets
  • Octane udim support
  • Fstorm invert bitmaps
  • Corona Physcial material 'Roughness mode'

25-11-2022 update 1.6x

  • Vray6 support
  • Include colorMap for diffuse color when using an ao map
  • Save material previews
  • Remember selected preset
16-05-2022 update 1.5x
  • 3ds max 2023 support
  • Support for Corona7 Physical Material 
  • Support 3ds Max PBR materials specular/metallic
  • Octane random map with Chaos_texture
  • Octane flip green channel normal map
  • Vray ACES colorspace (default = off)
  • De-activate channels
  • Material name edittext box
  • Icons + UI overhaul
  • Texturemap rotation
01-09-2021 update 1.4x
  • Support for 3ds max 2022
  • Support for Corona 6
  • Two sided materials
  • Material previews
  • Random texture mapping (vray, corona, fstrom)
  • Set ColorCorrection and Invert Color maps for every channel
  • Display channel maps & material in viewport

15-08-2020 update 1.3x

  • Support for 3ds max 2021
  • Support for vray5
  • Save and load Presets
  • Invert texture output (Except for Arnold)
  • Optional ColorCorrection map for each channel
  • Octane support
  • Create and adjust Dipslacement modifier
  • Add UVW Map modifier
  • Gamma input options
  • Switch between dockable and window mode
  • Improved UV mapping size controls 

28-12-2020: update1.2x

  • Arnold Legacy map support enabled
  • Arnold UDIM support with multiTile maps.
  • Arnold map settings improvement
  • VrayNext uses roughness option
  • UDIM texture sets support for Standard, Physical, Vray, Corona and Redshift materials for 3ds max 2017+
  • Add and combine seperate customizable filter name lists
  • Live interface update and parameter link between the regular material editor
  • Automatically accept material name
  • Support for Physical Material and Blended Box Mapping
  • Live adding extra textures to already your material
  • Color Correction map for diffuse channel
  • Flip green channel in Normal Map
  • Improved Metallic workflow for Specular materials, like Corona and Fstrom
  • Add custom texture name filtering
  • Improved texture name regonition
  • Improved blur filtering and gamma settings
  • Arnold 4 support
  • Live texture loading and material channel assignment.
  • Live bitmap and material parameter editing.
  • Support for FStorm.
  • Set Real-World and Triplanar scale size
  • Improved parameter linking

30-07-2019: updated 1.1x

  • Create materials without textures.
  • Base diffuse, reflection and glossiness material inputs.
  • Arnold parameter linking
  • UI and material display improvements
  • Redshift 2.6 support
  • Vray 3.x support
  • Added a checkbutton to include all texture channels, even if the material doesn't have an available slot for it
  • Material Editor automatically opens when placing a material into it.
  • Added support for Redshift and Arnold
  • Added triplanar mapping and linking
  • Added AO and emmisve channels
  • Apply to objects, sample slot and slate view
  • Improved channel named recognition and specular, metallic worflow
  • Added extra parameter settings
  • Detects current renderers
  • Added support for 3ds Max 2019 and 2020.
  • Added IOR, Metallic and Translucency texture channels.
  • Automatically sets the right Glossniss/Rougness and Metallic settings.
  • Clear and Default texture channels.
  • Set Real-world scale.
  • Added support for 3ds Max 2016 and 2017.
  • Add material to your material sample slots.
  • Set Blur filtering.

 

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Comments (8)

Corona Physical Material

D0br0 · 2021-08-11

Hi. Do you plan to support the new corona physical MTL material in corona render 7?

UVW Randomaizer

D0br0 · 2021-02-07

Hi. I really like your script. I use it a lot. I have a suggestion, if it is possible of course. Can you make an option to be able to assign all maps at once Corona UVW Randomizer map and link between the main parameters to change in one map and the other. Thank you.

uvw randomizing

DMZScripts · 2021-02-10

In the next update , uvw randomization will be possible for vray, corona and fstorm.
Hopefully it will be out at the end of the month.

Nice!

maxor1986 · 2019-11-17

Hey, nice script, are you planning to support UDIMS in the future?

Thank you
-Robert

DMZScripts · 2019-11-29

Hi Robert, thank you for the comment. UDIM texture loading is now supported in update 1.23.

Vray, corona and physical materials are supported with the multiTile map. Redshift is support with its own UDIM bitmap support.

Arnold and Fstroms unfortuanatly do not yet have UDIM support. They probably will be included in the future.

1.20

bronius · 2019-11-06

I bought script version 1.20. How to update to 1.22?

Input Gamma for Reflection slot

robox · 2019-09-06

Hi,

first of all great script and a huge time saver...was looking for a script like this for some time for megascans, poliigon and RDT. So this was an instant buy for me :)
There is only one thing i think should be changed. The input gamma value for the reflection maps should also be 1.0.
At least for proper usage of the poliigon, megascans and RDT materials. May be you could add an additional row next to strength, to manually change the inverse gamma value in the vrayhdri loader or make some sort of a presets system, so one could customize these settings. Also why is the iOR value always default to 1,52 ?

Thanks

Robin

reflection and ior settings.

DMZScripts · 2019-09-24

Hi robox, thank you for the comments.

The reflection is set to sRgb/gamma 2.2/inverse gamma .45, because I read on multiple places it is the proper way. The reflection channel colors the object, just like the diffuse channel does and since in most cases images are created in sRgb color space, then those are the color values we want to use for tinting the color of the reflection. Basically, if the color of a texture is used for what it 'looks like' to our eyes, you want to set it to sRGB. The same goes for emmissive and translucency channels.

The default ior is from Corona default, which is also closer to what Allegorithmic discribes as the most common ior for materials and what other renders use as a default. Vray's 1.6 seems to be an outlier in that regard. Differences are minimal however.

The gamma input is a good idea. I will try to add it in an upcoming update. Along with some preset, or set default settings.