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Using MDL materials

Using MDL materials - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Using MDL materials

- The term MDL is an initialism, that refers to invidious Material Definition Language. A programming language, material shaders for use in any application and/or render engine, that supports the MDL Standard. The language was designed with the express goal of providing an easy way for developers to tell a material exactly how it was supposed to handle surface interactions with light. So reflectants, specular reflection, roughness levels and so on. It was also designed as a way to provide a common material exchange format, that would cause physically based materials to always look the same in any render engine that supported MDL. Now unlike many other material types in V-Ray and 3ds Max itself, the V-Ray MDL Material isn't so much a material as a loader. In fact, if we open up the Slate Material Editor and then in the MDL-tab, and double-click to load its parameters, you can hopefully see what I mean, because rather than seeing typical materialized shade of parameters such as color…

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