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Switch material - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Switch material

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- One of the tools now available in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max is the Switch Material, which can essentially be thought of as a repository or container that can hold multiple materials at the same time. Materials that can then be associated with a numeric value ranging from 1 to 10 that can then in turn be used to chose the material to be associated with an object at render time simply by selecting the required value. To show how this could work let's open up the material editor using the M key and then jump into the materials tab where we have quite a few material variations set up. To add a Switch Material to the mix let's come to the V-Ray section of the material browser and add one to the work area. If we take a closer look at the switch node in the graph we can see just how simple it actually is in that we have a number of material inputs, and we also have a switchMap input that can be used to control the specific material to be assigned to an object or sub-object in the scene…

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