BUG: no bitmap tiling in stem materials (in ivy presets)

[ritoo]

Could you please fix the subject ASAP?

[Paul Roberts]

Hi,

thanks for reporting this. It would appear to be an issue with our conversion to a portable material format that is disabling the tiling option in the bitmaps. For leaves this doesn't have any impact but for stems it causes the problems that you report. I will report this to our development team.

You can enable it again to get it working until we can publish the fix.

Thanks again for bringing this to our attention.

Paul

[ritoo]

Thanks Paul, out of curiosity what is "portable material format"?

[Paul Roberts]

Hi,

Good question! In recent version of FP and RC we introduced the ability to save material libraries to a .pmat file. This is a new format that isn't limited by Max versions (unlike Max's standard .mat format) so it make it much easier for our libraries to support multiple releases of 3ds Max. We didn't make a lot of fanfare about it since it was mainly to simplify the distribution of our libraries.

Cheers
Paul

[ritoo]

Good to know, thanks!