Using overbright colors will not only look non-realistic, but it will also increase the render times, as the light needs to be bounced around more. Even the darkest coal has an albedo of ~4%. The same goes for the blacks, only black holes absorb everything the rest of the world reflects at least a small portion of the light. The whitest snow has only 90% albedo (reflectance rate). Most things we think of as pure white are actually ~75%-90% white (190-230). Important note – for realistic results, the Diffuse must use colors or textures in the range of 10~230 on the lightness scale. This seems a bit complicated for just getting a simple color in 3ds Max, but currently there is no automatic way to do this. Now the color of the material matches perfectly with the color you took from Photoshop. Or, of course, use the library in the same, or higher, version of Max you created/refreshed it with.Set the same RGB values in the color slot and change the Gamma correction settings to “Specify” and make sure it’s set at 2.2 It's a Max thing (the non-backward compatibility), and the only way you have to ensure it won't happen again is by doing all the addition/conversion from the lower Max version you have available. ThanksThis is due to adding/refreshing materials with the script (under the 'Add to library' button), but doing so from a max version higher than the one you tried reading them from. With the rest of the materials like bricks etc. The materials with which this problem is: carpaint, diagrammatic, emissiveĪnd they also do not appear in the browser - see attachment The problem is with some materials not with everyone This refers not to custom material but to materials that are in the materials library that come with the vray-vray material browser.

I have two max installed: 2022, 2020 and both have vray installedĬan't say exactly when the problem started - probably after installing one of vray's updates.

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