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Forest Pack => Forest Pro (*) => Topic started by: MQ4267 on June 29, 2015, 04:27:43 PM
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hello. often i find myself
1. turning off translucency
2. setting material to thin-walled
3. re-locking (turning off) the translucent shadow shader in the mentalray arch&design material's mentalray connection
i do this on some pre-set grasses and meadows from the library.
i find this can significantly decrease render times without much of a quality hit because i'm not doing close up views.
is there a place i can edit the mentalray materials globally so that the next time i create a meadow from the library the materials have those options turned off already? it would save me time from having to go through the multi-materials (often 40-50 of them) one by one and making sure those three things are set.
thanks,
steve
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Hi Steve,
All materials used in our presets are stored by default at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Itoo Software\Forest Pack Pro\matlib
In case of mental ray materials, the proper library files is the 3d_mental.mat.
Please feel free to modify these materials (material libraries) to suite best your needs. Just take in mind, all these presets / material libraries will be overwritten when upgrading. Therefore I would suggest you to create your own "personalized copy" of bundled libraries and do those material changes on there.
Let me mention, that we recently published a "Creating Libraries (http://www.itoosoft.com/tutorials/tutorial_creating_libraries.php)" tutorial covering this topic in detail. You might find it interesting.
Best regards,