what are the following max workflow equivalents in maya?

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# 1 24-01-2003 , 02:36 AM

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what are the following max workflow equivalents in maya?

selection sets-object and subobject

material ID

Map Channel

Blend material

whatelse....ill think of other things

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# 2 24-01-2003 , 02:59 AM

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No material IDs (I miss those).

Not sure about the other 2, since I never used them in Max.

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# 3 24-01-2003 , 03:10 AM

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i really missed max's material workflows...they are probably the best that i tried

btw....for example i have a noise map in my bump channel...what if i want to delete it or change it to another 2/3d texture...how do i do that?

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# 4 24-01-2003 , 03:35 AM

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I don't like Max's material workflow. It's not very fluid or intuitive.

To remove the noise map, in HyperShade, select the material, graph the material (right click), select the noise map, and delete it. Reassign another texture to the bump channel. Easy as pie. user added image

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# 5 24-01-2003 , 07:34 AM

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must be my force of habit :-)

anyway...is ther a material/map browser thing in maya?

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# 6 24-01-2003 , 07:55 AM

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Kind of. In HyperShade, click the Textures tab to see all image files used as texures. You can also use Multilister (Windows | Rendering Editors).

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# 7 24-01-2003 , 10:07 AM

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pitbull: if u stick with hypershade and get to know how it works, you will soon learn the servere limitations of Max's material editor

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# 8 24-01-2003 , 01:49 PM

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well.... i like the node based mat editor of maya.....

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# 9 24-01-2003 , 06:24 PM

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No need for material ID's either user added image

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# 10 24-01-2003 , 07:48 PM

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no mateial ID?? material ID is amazing, nice way to work i reckon user added image

map channel is in hypershade, all ur textures and everything is on ur left (almost like max, select the type you want then edit it)
blend is a node in hypershade, its the blend node obviously user added image

u can mix together any 2 attributes of any 2 objects, nice stuff

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# 11 24-01-2003 , 08:02 PM

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Actually, material IDs in Max are really only useful in conjunction with Multi-Subobject materials (a single material with several submaterials). Since there are no multi-subobject materials in Maya, material IDs aren't needed.

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