GAH! I wish I had known that!

[PyroNeko]

Things that aren't that obvious and could have saved you time had you known them.

I'll start us off, Depth of Field (mr) doesn't work with mr sky, to achieve good results use a regular skylight, check "Use Scene Environment" in the skylight rollout and then set your environment to be the mr physical sky shader.

[Spacelord]

Yeah thats really stupid, Mr sky not working with MR Depth of Field !!. Have you log it as a bug to Autodesk ?

[Spacelord]

I just tried your work around and I couldn't get it to work.

I grab a skylight from the light panel,
checked the use enviroment,
in the enviroment panel selected the mr Physical sky.
Doesn't work for me.
When inside a room the walls disappear.

cheers

[hot chip]

hi,

another workflow is, when you use a sphere for the enviroment and put the physical_sky shader in mr-material-> surface. So you don´t need the max skylight. When you want a different background as the mr_physical_sky, take a raytype shader.

for examble: raytype shader in mr-material->surface
eye => new_background (tga,tiff ...)
fg => mr_physical_sky

[Spacelord]

Aaah yes I keep forgetting about raytype shaders in Max.
I use to use them all time in XSI.
Damn I miss node based material editor :(

Thanks Hotchip

[MasterZap]

Things that aren't that obvious and could have saved you time had you known them.

I'll start us off, Depth of Field (mr) doesn't work with mr sky, to achieve good results use a regular skylight, check "Use Scene Environment" in the skylight rollout and then set your environment to be the mr physical sky shader.

This is a known (and fixed in the recent update) issue, the exact workaround needed is on my mentalraytips.blogspot.com (http://mentalraytips.blogspot.com) blg

/Z

[mmikee]

Master zap...Great blog man ! Just wanted you to know that
I appreciate your contribution to MR 3.5 and to the community
at large. Sorry that this is off topic.

Regards,
Mike

[nisus]

Hi Zap,

Does your script also works the other way around, say converting VRay-mat into A+D?

rgds,

nisus