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V-Ray 5 comes with its own extensive V-Ray Material Library designed to cover detailed resolution for your realistic renders. V-Ray Material Library Browser eases navigation in this library by providing high quality material previews, content filtering and quick search of the hundreds of materials available.
In V-Ray 6, the V-Ray Material Library Browser is replaced by the Chaos Cosmos Browser. The legacy browser is still usable but the plan is to retire it completely. Please use the materials from the Chaos Cosmos Browser for any new projects for the transition period.
If the file is executed directly, without a command line, the downloader checks for the VRAY_MTLIB_DOWNLOAD_DIR environment variable. You can set it typing the following command into a Command Prompt Window:
If none of the above is set, the downloader uses the last download location stored in the registry. Navigate to "HKCU\Software\Chaos Group\V-Ray Material Library", REG_SZ key "Download Path". The "Download Path" key is created or updated after successful material library download.
The companion tool is meant to automate the addition of custom material libraries to the Chaos Material Library.
It works on both material library .mat files, and on .max scene files, and it's able to scan folders and subfolders for those file types, so to enable for massive processing of assets.
If they are present, the tool doesn't render the preview to disk in order to avoid file writing errors, and the library shows a missing preview file icon.
2) Incoming .mat and .max files paths and names: When the tool builds the .mat/.max file list(s) to be processed, the pathing information cannot be carried over to the library.
This means that files with different paths, but identical names are treated as another copy of the same file.
The tool can only try and overwrite (or not, as the user chooses) what is already in the Chaos Material Library root, as the full pathing information isn't transferable to the library.
When mass-processing assets, please ensure they do not share the same file name, even under a different path.
The script correctly processes the first input (collection happens alphabetically), but finds "woodMat.mat" already in the library root by the time it processes the second.
This triggers one of the three conditions for .mat files overwrite:
The processing can be halted by standing (not tapping) on the ESC key, until the Chaos Library window pops up.
The Maxscript Listener will contain information about the process progress (f.e. which material library/material is being processed).
Low resolution and preview quality, used in conjunction with the tool's ability to operate on many .max and .mat files at once, allows for the rapid generation of many samples.
A second pass, after reviewing the low quality ones, can then be run at the default (or higher) resolution and quality.
If the Move Textures to the Library option is enabled, the destination .mat file will automatically be overwritten, regardless of the user choice, to ensure the repathing of textures is saved correctly.
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Chaos Cosmos is designed to work seamlessly with Chaos renderers and is included in the most popular integrations of V-Ray, Corona, and Vantage. Cosmos assets render consistently across V-Ray, Corona, V-Ray GPU, and Vantage.
There is no need to download it from anywhere. Chaos Cosmos is a built-in library inside Chaos Vantage, V-Ray 5 or later, and Chaos Corona 8. The Chaos Cosmos browser is launched from within your Chaos product. Once launched, you can browse through the various categories of 3D models to download your desired asset with many sorting options. Cosmos also has a search function where you can search on asset characteristics such as object type, space, color, publisher, etc.
Chaos Cosmos is currently included in V-Ray 5 for Revit, Update 1 of V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max, V-Ray 5 for SketchUp, and V-Ray 5 for Rhino, Update 1.2 of V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D, Update 2 of V-Ray 5 for Maya, and Chaos Vantage. Chaos Cosmos is also now available in Chaos Corona 8.
When I first opened the asset editor for V-Ray 5 it was empty too, but it immediately proceeded to download the asset library from the Chaos Group server. It took its time, as, if I remember right, there was over 3 GB to download.
You might have the same problem as sbk had - something in your computer is blocking V-Ray from downloading the material library. I wonder if it could be downloaded separately by going to the V-Ray website, logging in and looking for it there.
3. There are no ways to make changes to your albedo texture inside Revit once it has been converted to its proprietary Archvision format. (ie. you need to do the conversion thing from scratch if you want to make color changes to texture)
Hence, Enscape's newly added Asset browser (and upcoming custom asset importer) will become the only hope to get UV enabled entourage models into Revit (Hopefully supporting FBX format)
This is a huge priority for us as well. Can't wait to fill our Revit projects with high quality assets. We don't necessarily have to have it user friendly. I'd be okay if (in the beginning) it is a complicated process to create an enscape asset.
Adding an upvote to this. I've explored thoroughly the ins and out of accomplishing this with the .RPC format from archvision, and found it to be a terribly frustrating conversion process of creating our own custom 3D+ RPC families to drop into our models.
We recently went through a design visualization phase of modeling every specimen our landscape designer had specified so that we could express to the municipality involved what our vision was for a specific project. I performed the work and the process was tedious. Looking up for plants on turbosquid, cgtrader, etc., opening them in 3DS Max, following Archvision's conversion steps, only to find that each model had a different compatibility to the process, and needed to be treated differently.
1. All UV mapping must be contained in one bitmap file, and typically every downloaded textured model author's texture mapping would need to be modified in order to compensate for this. Sometimes it would take hours to re-map and re-render something. Ideally whatever Enscape does should eliminate the user's need to re-produce/re-render UV mappings.
2. Most textured models available for purchase use different proprietary renderers, which therefore means their materials definitions are also proprietary. Some used scanline which is good. Some used vray. Some used corona. Etc. RPC only supported scanline and some vray materials. So it is on the user to convert those material definitions so that they can be properly re-rendered into a combined UV map for the RPC file. Turbosquid has their own manual on converting materials, but nothing is automatic, its all step-by-step, so you can imagine how much time merely converting materials from one renderer to another for a single plant model might take. Hopefully Enscape's method prevents users from having to convert material formats.
4. They use a web-based upload system to convert one model. It requires 4 different files - a hi-rez OBJ, a low-rez OBJ, a JPEG for thumbnail, and a combined UV texture mapped bitmap file created from items #1 and #2. I found this process to be slow and ideally would have preferred to simple export from one of our native softwares. Hopefully you can consider that those of us who are embarking on developing custom assets, or locating them in the marketplace, use industry-standard applications and want our pipelines to stay in them, not require additional widgets that require log-in
5. Their custom dashboard is horrendous and the drag and drop functionality, while fine, is outweighed by the fact that it does not integrate with the content management systems otherwise available, like UNIFI, AVAIL, etc. Hopefully Enscape considers how we need to see all of our assets in one place, and does not contribute to the strain and stress of needing multiple buckets for things, but rather one indexable database of families, whether local or in the cloud.
mattendler , thank you very much for the valuable post. I've happily added a further upvote and your feedback to the corresponding topic in question! Again, thanks a lot for the elaboration, that does sound quiet tedious and should the ability to add custom content to the Asset Library be implemented, I'm very sure that it'll be more convenient and straightforward.
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