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The following MDL material files are included when installing V-Ray for Maya 3.6. They are located in Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Chaos Group > V-Ray > Maya 20yy for x64 > mdl.

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Rubber Studded Black

 

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Stucco

 

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Walnut Semi-Gloss

 

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Basic

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The Basic rollout provides the attributes used to set the path to the .mdl file that you wish to load into your chosen material, and an Update button needed to refresh the other attributes available, based on the material file used.

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MDL file – Specifies the file path and .mdl file loaded.

Chosen material – If more than one material definition is included in the loaded .mdl file, the selected materials will be seen in the rollouts below.

MDL parameters– The Update button refreshes the additional material-specific attributes for the loaded .mdl file.

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Parameters

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Any additional material-specific attributes (if any) are listed in this rollout. The example below shows parameters for the Coated Flip-flop Paint material.

 

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 MDL material attributes that can accept Render Nodes to map color values can now use File textures as input. Note that while other texture types may also be used, only File textures are guaranteed to work properly.

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coated_flipflop_paint.mdl Parameters

 

Advanced

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Max Ray Depth – Specifies the maximum reflection/refraction depth for the shader.

Remap Roughness – When enabled (default), determines whether the plugin expects squared values for GGX Roughness settings.

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System Attributes

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Filename – Specifies the file path and .mdl file loaded.

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Importing NVIDIA vMaterials

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