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gordo3di · December 28th, 2007

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Better material override settings
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Material override with better control and more options.

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF YOUR REQUEST
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I often use material override to perform AO, shadow, color, etc... passes and one large problem is the lack of the override to take opacity maps into account. I use flat planes to render plants in my scenes and if I run the material override with ambient occlusion as the material it doesnt correctly cutout the plants with the opacity maps. This means my scene is flooded with flat planes everywhere. If i turn off the layer with the plants and render then the AO pass is almost worthless since it doesnt cutout the plants.

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WHY THIS REQUEST IS IMPORTANT TO YOU
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There are ways around this both in MAX and Photoshop but they just add lots of wasted time to the process and it seems like this could be something which may not be too hard to program in.

December 28th, 2007	#1 (permalink)
gordo3di Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NYC Posts: 6 Name: Gordon LaPlante	Better material override settings ---------------------------------------------------------------- Better material override settings ---------------------------------------------------------------- Material override with better control and more options. --------------------------------------------------------------- DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF YOUR REQUEST --------------------------------------------------------------- I often use material override to perform AO, shadow, color, etc... passes and one large problem is the lack of the override to take opacity maps into account. I use flat planes to render plants in my scenes and if I run the material override with ambient occlusion as the material it doesnt correctly cutout the plants with the opacity maps. This means my scene is flooded with flat planes everywhere. If i turn off the layer with the plants and render then the AO pass is almost worthless since it doesnt cutout the plants. --------------------------------------------------------------- WHY THIS REQUEST IS IMPORTANT TO YOU --------------------------------------------------------------- There are ways around this both in MAX and Photoshop but they just add lots of wasted time to the process and it seems like this could be something which may not be too hard to program in.