topic Re: 3D Max Mental ray material settings in 3ds Max Forum

3D Max Mental ray material settings

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:11:16 GMT

Hi guys !

Could someone help me with material setting in 3d max 2015. Im useing Mental ray render and can't manage to make an object ( bitmap) looks partly glossy party matte. For example the floor on the following picture:

Thanks For support !

Re: 3D Max Mental ray material settings

jibijib — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:52:12 GMT

What does your scene look like, and can you expand on what properties your mentalray material has?

Re: 3D Max Mental ray material settings

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:35:12 GMT

Basicly I’m not expert so all I do when I setup a material is first of all I select the glossiness then I add a bitmap and sometimes setting up bump and adding a map to it but I want my renders to become more realistic and I think this should be the first step if I could setup materials properly. Tried to setup reflection with a black and white picture and also the invert but nothing changed on the render sceen.

thanks for your support!

Re: 3D Max Mental ray material settings

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 08:40:16 GMT

Any help?

Re: 3D Max Mental ray material settings

jibijib — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:12:55 GMT

Are they physical materials? There's a lot more to a scene than just a material, it looks like there's a bit of soft emissive and lighting in there as well doing the jobs.

Re: 3D Max Mental ray material settings

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:26:18 GMT

Could i ask you to make a Step by step short video about settings and apply things on the tile please ?

Thanks !

Re: 3D Max Mental ray material settings

jibijib — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:58:02 GMT

I use 2020/2019 now which is no longer supported in Max, and it would literally take hours and hours to create a tutorial on this (which I don't have), each artist would have a different way of going about it - but everyone learns if they want to achieve it. There's load of tutorial videos on YouTube, but I left Mental Ray / VRay a long time ago!

Re: 3D Max Mental ray material settings

Richard.Vivanco — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 05:44:21 GMT

The reflection is affected by the lights too. Be sure your lighting scheme are appropiate.

About the material, put the reflection to .85 and the glossiness to .4, increase the glossy samples to 32 or 48.

Try with a reflection maps too, search about pbr materials.