milfora

Hi,

I am relatively new to Mental Ray, and have only started using it since the introduction of MR 3.5 in 3dsmax9.

I am finding the new A&D material an absolute dream to use but recently the templates pulldown no longer works.

I can access the materials directly by loading the 'mrArch_DesignTemplates.mat' material library, but it is much quicker to select an A&D material, select a template and start modifying

Is anybody else having this issue? Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks in advance

AM

Brian Bradley

Hi Andrew,

never come across this before! have you
made any changes in the 'Defaults Switcher'
that may have changed material behaviour?
(i don't think any of the defaults make this
kind of change, but worth checking)

Regards
Bri

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milfora

Hi Brian,

No, I have not changed any of the default settings, aside from changing the project folder (I can't stand having to sift through half a dozen folders to find my scenes)

I have tried resetting the defaults using the 'Custom UI and defaults switcher', but have had no luck

AM

nisus

Did you move your matlibs? or did you overwrite one?
Did you change any paths?
Check your c:\3dsmax9\Matlibs folder AND YOUR LOCAL SETTINGS!!!
(For some reasons max uses a lot of 'local' paths... so even i you THINK it's loading from your standard directory, it is NOT!!! - a HUGE PROBLEM this is!!!)

about your prob:
Imho, max cannot find your template matlib anymore... that's why it cannot activate the presets... for some reason max needs the A+Dmatlib to be able to work. (Had same prob here). Copy a 'good' A+Dmatlib (e.g. from your installation disc) to BOTH locations...

rgds,

nisus

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milfora

Nisus,

Many thanks, thats fixed it.

For some strange reason, the material libraries were moved to the project folder (in this case C:\3ds Max 9\materiallibraries)

The material libraries had been removed from the original install folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\3ds Max 9\materiallibraries)

Copying the material libraries back into the original install folder has fixed the problem (even though my Configured User Path specifies the project 'Materials' folder)

Thanks again

AM

nisus

np, glad i could help ,-) glad it's solved now

nisus

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WAcky

I know this thread is quote old but i've hit a snag too.

I've been doing some material Testing with the A&D shader and it seems that whenever i try to put a material to a library (doesnt matter which) it stops the A&D mat lib working. Wierd stuff...and annoying too!

Anyways if anyone knows a solution i'd love to hear it.

Tommy Burns

I had the same problem would love to know the fix.

conjeo

I have had this same problem many of times and I called Autodesk and they were no help at all. I finally just uninstalled and reinstalled Max and it worked but. A pain in the butt but it worked

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pixelperfectg

After you re-install a working version of the mrArch_DesignTemplates.mat, right click on it in windows explorer and check the "read-only" option. That should prevent this from happening again.

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