HD Plants Script to set shaders to Vray

[MN3180]

Hi,

My company has purchased HD Plants 1 and 2, I have installed the catalogue to the library, it all works fine and as expected. But I have a problem, now I have a couple of hundred files containing plants with MR shaders on as default, I need to update these to vray shaders, and update the bitmap paths to my local file structure. Is there a simple/scripted way to do this? Opening hundreds of files and altering and re-saving is very unappealing.

Thanks

[yuv]

If you use the HQ Plants trought Forest Pack and the HQ Catalog add-on, the vray materials are applied automatically. Please see this tutorial for instalation steps:

http://www.itoosoft.com/forestpack/tutorials/tutorial_library_addon.php

[TL1895]

Same problem here, but add the following;

When using some of HQ Grass in Vray via Forest, the grass file being referenced by default has a MR material applied.
I think that "Bedstraw" are the specific models I am mentioning in this case, although it may happen elsewhere that I have only yet to notice.

Thanks

[iToo]

You are right, the Bedstraw VRay model have a wrong material assigned.

3D Mentor should fix it, but there is an easy workaround:

1) Open the file models-vray\vray-models-bedstraw-01.max.
2) Select the VRay material from the material editor, and apply it to the scene's objects.
3) Save the scene.

Doing this, it will work fine from HQ Catalog.

[TL1895]

You are also right, it is an easy fix, but I worry how many more I will encounter.
Not so quick if you have to open/check/re-save all the models...

Thanks