Upon recommendation from Solidworks Visualize Forum, I downloaded the MDL and Exchange. I use Rhino 7 , VRAY, Solidworks2020, and Visualize2020. I have no idea how to access these materials or use them in the applications. Where is the documentation, or instructions on how to use them, modify, create, etc?
Kindly,
Thomas
We are currently working on a documentation for how to use vMaterials with various rendering applications. We will post these instructions on our vMaterials webpage soon.
Any news on this? I used to use an old version (1.6 I think, the one with a .mat included).
Got 2.0 now and all I get is ‘failed to load errors’ trying to import the ,mdl’s
Using 3dsmax’22, Iray
In Iray for Rhino on Windows, a mdl folder is automatically created in the “Documents” folder and the vmaterials installer also places a copy of the vmaterials files there. Correctly adding the path of this directory to the Iray settings and restarting Rhino should hopefully add the materials to the library. Perhaps the workflow is similar for 3dsmax.
PS link to the webpage for the Rhino Iray plugin: http://irayrhino.com/
Dear vve
the new version of vMaterials 2.0 does not use .mat (like a material library).
You can import mdl files as you did, but you have to define where you installed the library.
Below is an image of where and what to do.
Now it should work without failing errors. Please tell me about your result.
