Opening materials downloaded from My Mental Ray in 3dsmax 9

[Narfnarf]

Hi, I know this is a dumb question but how do I use the materials in 3dsmax 9? For example the Cloth Linen Cherry material I got from this site. I thought the folder would contain some sort of Mental Ray file but all I see in the folder is a sample pic, a maps folder and a media file? Its coming up as a winamp file, but its not. In object properties it says its some sort of text file. Has this got something to do with Maxscript?

Thanks for the help.

[Narfnarf]

Actually, its ok I think I've got it. Problem with DLU Classes or something when I load in the materials. They must have been made on a higher version of max.

[Shimrod]

Yes, most of these materials need max10 (2008/2009), because they contain new shaders like Utility Gain & Gamma or else. (This is a question frequently asked on several forums).

edit : oooops sorry, I made a mistake, I was talking about mrmaterials.com.
I can't find this material, Cloth Linen. Can you post the URL plz ?



The winamp file is certainly a wrong file association with softwares. At my last reinstall of my pc, material libraries (.mat) were associed too with Winamp.
You should configure Windows to show extensions files. :) One trick is to right-click on the file, "Open With...", choose 3dsmax and tick "Always use this program" or something like that (I've a french version of Windows).


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