Material Preview
Material Preview
Is there any trick to making the material previews look more like.. I dunno... the actual material? My environment map material (which works fine) is a black sphere. My aluminum material (which works fine) is a shiny black sphere. A glass material is a shiny black sphere. Etc. Is there a way to get an actual material preview that looks ANYTHING like the material?
Re: Material Preview
mat preview for emission materials is hard to manage cause they've all different light intensities.
maybe you could get over it by creating your own mat preview scene with indigo cam tag in it.
aluminium mat looks black cause the current preview scene has no good environment to show in reflection.
glass mat preview works fine here
afaik yves fixed the preview scene thing in the latest update, so you could setup any scene you want as your personal mat preview and save it in c4d main folder/library/materialpreview
maybe you could get over it by creating your own mat preview scene with indigo cam tag in it.
aluminium mat looks black cause the current preview scene has no good environment to show in reflection.
glass mat preview works fine here
afaik yves fixed the preview scene thing in the latest update, so you could setup any scene you want as your personal mat preview and save it in c4d main folder/library/materialpreview
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Re: Material Preview
Actually, it's even better than that. From the changelog:Mor4us wrote:mat preview for emission materials is hard to manage cause they've all different light intensities.
maybe you could get over it by creating your own mat preview scene with indigo cam tag in it.
aluminium mat looks black cause the current preview scene has no good environment to show in reflection.
glass mat preview works fine here
afaik yves fixed the preview scene thing in the latest update, so you could setup any scene you want as your personal mat preview and save it in c4d main folder/library/materialpreview
* Cindigo now parses res/materialpreview for user preview scenes (in .c4d format) to add to the Indigo Material. Preview scenes must have the Indigo Renderer Settings present, otherwise they will be converted the same way the standard preview scenes are converted (and will look bad).
Putting the preview scene there will ensure it only gets added to the Indigo Material.
There currently is a bug with textures in those preview scenes, which has been fixed for the next release.
Re: Material Preview
Do the Indigo settings in the preview scene have to have stop parameters set, or will the render just keep going if I don't? Can they have an environment map set in them? I'll fiddle around with this when my machine isn't busy, but I'd figure I ask those questions first.
Re: Material Preview
The indigo material will set halt parameters itself when rendering the preview.forgeflow wrote:Do the Indigo settings in the preview scene have to have stop parameters set, or will the render just keep going if I don't? Can they have an environment map set in them? I'll fiddle around with this when my machine isn't busy, but I'd figure I ask those questions first.
You can also set an environment map. Currently using textures in preview scenes is broken, tho, so you'd have to wait for the next release for that.
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