Instead, extended matte/shadow capabilities for V-Ray are available in the VRayMtlWrapper material or in the V-Ray Object settings. The standard Matte/shadow material also does not pick up GI shadows. Specifically, the Opaque Alpha parameter is not supported. V-Ray only partially supports this material. Some of its functionalities are available in the VRayMtlWrapper material. This material is not fully supported by V-Ray using it with V-Ray is not recommended as it can lead to artifacts in the image. V-Ray does not provide an equivalent functionality. This map is not supported by V-Ray using it with V-Ray is not recommended. I can try the scene converter again, but MAX acts like it has no idea what the Glow material ever was.This map is not fully supported by V-Ray using it with V-Ray is not recommended, as it can lead to artifacts in the image. I can't find anything equivalent in MAX 2023 as near as I can tell, only MentalRay did this. MentalRay had a 'Glow' material that did this it made the glow volumetric instead of a mere post effect.

One of the biggest challenges I face with MAX is that it tries so hard to make things look realistic that it becomes difficult to make something stylized or imaginative, and certainly not simply.ĮXAMPLE: Making something glow, like a lightsaber blade, with more of a nimbus effect, where the glow stays the same size relative to the object rather than relative to the screen.

(The project is called 'Quinn Redshift', and it's on YouTube I won't post the link here, but if you like Star Wars-y sci-fi.) MAX completely gagged on most of my scenes because of deprecated functions and features. For a long time, I was using MAX 2013 it was all I could afford and I was in the middle of a huge project trying to convert it to a new version of MAX before it was done seemed potentially problematic.and it all kinds of would have been.

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