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Need Help with Shellac material convert to Arnold

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james.parker.37.ctr
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Need Help with Shellac material convert to Arnold

I have an older file that used Mental ray and I want to use it with Arnold render.
I used the convert tool, but it breaks everything. I don't mind creating the material from scratch. I'm not sure what material to use in Arnold for a substitute for shellac. Also, other materials are gradient ramp, color correction. I'm not the original author of the file, for it was made by the person before me at my company or they purchased it somewhere else.

We upgraded from 3Ds Max 2016 to 2021 recently.

Mental Ray Shellac MatrialMental Ray Shellac Matrial

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I can't help, but do you have any good rubber tire matl's for arnold?

 

Peace,
Dave

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3DS Max 2023 and 2024
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Dell Precision 5820
Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10920X CPU @ 3.50GHz, 3504 Mhz, 12 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s)
Display Adapter: NVIDIA RTX A4000
Adapter RAM (1,048,576) bytes
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 64.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 63.7 GB
Available Physical Memory 45.6 GB
Total Virtual Memory 81.7 GB
Available Virtual Memory 56.5 GB
Page File Space 18.0 GB
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No I don't

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Do you have any example of how the material should look like?

Lead Enviroment Artist @Axis Studios

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GBU-39.png

 This is a Mental Ray rendering

I was playing around today I think Blend maybe the way I might go.

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That shellac to me looks like the coat layer. Just to give an extra punch for the material. 

 

https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5AF3DSUG/Coat

Lead Enviroment Artist @Axis Studios

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Ciro Cardoso

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