free material library for all

Yup, there renderer specific materials.

If you go download the beta of brazil, you'll see that it installs a material type of it's own. That's what will be in the brazil zip.... and so on.

btw, does anyone know if the materials from the brazil beta work in Brazil v1.0.

Really great idea...
Have sent some materials...

very cool stuff max5. Thanks

edit: Matlib on site updated Here

Visual Boo my man, just wanted to say "excellent initiative man"

that's what i'd like to see . . . give back to the community

just testin with some displacement

edit: EQ: I try

that left one looks like a nice material . . . that in the zip too ??

yup. I tweaked a couple small settings though

Hi everybody,i dont' know if this has happened to anybody else but i couldn't open the Matlib 'cause i get a "viewportmanager.gup file missing" error .Does anyone know how to solve this?

omg . . . VisualB . . . you saved the matlib from max 5 didn't ya ??

viewportmanager.gup is the viewport handler in max 5 and unfortunately it get's baked into every file saved with max5 . . .

It just occured to me, with all the files in the one zip, it could become cumbersome downloading the same file over and over? Well it's only a few kb anyway.. so i guess that dosnt really matter much at the moment.

EQ: yes I did I still have 4.2 installed though so I'll try and fix'em today. Thanks

scribble: Yeah, I thought about that a while ago. To answer your question... just replace the old one everytime, out with the old, in with the new.

The bigger problem is that after a while the file is going to get kinda big. Any ideas on organization that won't kick my butt?

actually a couple of the files that were sent to me must have come from max 5. I cant open them in 4.2 either.

That SUCKS... Is there a way around this? Anyone?

nope nope nope

I tracked it down to one guys mat file. I'll try and get ahold of him to try and fix it.

Sorry guys.

[edit] Man this is weird OK so what it's doing is trying to open max 5 material types that don't exist in 4.x (ie. no toon shader). So that means more work for me. I guess I'll just split them into 2 categories. 4 and 5. All the max 5 users will be able to DL any of them tho.

VisualBoo, thanks for clearing that up with the veiwport manager error, i d/ld the library and got that error, but didn't want to bother anybody with it... i thought it was my system playing up
will hopefully send u some contributions quite soon

no prob.

If you guys get errors, let me know. Even if it is just a small error... just send a quick email. That's the only way I can tell if there's something wrong.