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Missing Material Libraries 3ds Max 2022

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:32:57 GMT

I'm looking for the old legacy materials and the new arnold materials. Search produced ansers from 2016 and older which didn't help. Here's a screenshot of what I got:

Thanks in advance;)

Re: Missing Material Libraries 3ds Max 2022

wernienst — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:35:20 GMT

For some Arnold materials, look here (download at the bottom)

https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5AF3DSUG/Material+Library

Re: Missing Material Libraries 3ds Max 2022

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 18:09:45 GMT

Today I installed MAXtoA-4.3.3.21-2022 from the Arnold website. I see some of the materials in material browser but most of them are not showing in the thumbnail except for the nature.mat materials. I went to Check the "Legacy 3ds Max Map support" box but couldn't see it in the 2022 version of MAX. Even though I put the path to the Map folder, it still doesn't show thumbnails except for nature.mat.

Re: Missing Material Libraries 3ds Max 2022

CiroCardoso3v — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:49:09 GMT

Check this

Re: Missing Material Libraries 3ds Max 2022

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:36:43 GMT

Yes I did find that and tried it with no joy. I really think Autodesk should get behind this and make it less of a pain ... it makes the software almost useless. I see that you have MAXtoA version 5.0.0.11 ... I downloaded 4.3.3.21-2022 which was stated was the latest for max2022. I'm wondering whether that makes a difference?

Re: Missing Material Libraries 3ds Max 2022

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:02:38 GMT

I downloaded the plain MAXtoA library and now I see those 20 or so arnold materials ... hooray!

Re: Missing Material Libraries 3ds Max 2022

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:07:10 GMT

I'm still not able to see legacy materials or all of the Arnold materials. Please see my material browser screenshot. I have some of the Arnold materials and some of the nature materials but I'm sure I'm missing a lot.

Re: Missing Material Libraries 3ds Max 2022

CiroCardoso3v — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 07:39:03 GMT

I am using a Beta version, that is why it is different.

The material library seems right. Which legacy materials you think you are missing?

Re: Missing Material Libraries 3ds Max 2022

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:50:10 GMT

Missing all the metals, skies, ground, tiles and etc. Dozens of materials.

Re: Missing Material Libraries 3ds Max 2022

wernienst — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 08:35:03 GMT

You've probably found this already:

<HDD>:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2022\materiallibraries.

Then, here in the Support/Downloads section: search for 2021 (not 2022) Downloads.
There you will find a collection of legacy sample scenes and materials as an 1.7GB .exe file.

Please note that some of the material libraries only show up when using the ART renderer.

Re: Missing Material Libraries 3ds Max 2022

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:18:22 GMT

Thanks for the great advice;) I got the files which seems to have all the materials and maps I need. Now I need it to populate my material browser. I'm able to get some of the materials to show up using the configure project paths but those do not remain when I start a new project. How do I get the system to find the materials and open up for all future projects?