Three quality settings for thumbnail preview rendering (Fast, Good, High).Animate blur effect when opening preference window.Check for minimum requirements before uploading (attributes, thumbnail).Use custom thumbnail scene files for each renderer.Option to use custom thumbnail scene files.Optimized shaderball that supports translucent materials.Support for Octane Render, THEA, Maxwell Render and Redshift.“Uploading” text was cropped when uploading preset.Crash when dragging from the preset name field while in preset name editing mode.Clicking download button when preset is selected would start preset rename instead of download.Improved performance of the save materials list.Some issue caused when trying to download many presets at once.Changed the look of the user library updates counter.Exporting and uploading of presets with missing maps is no longer possible.Material Manager will warn about missing maps when trying to save a preset.The selected objects section in the save materials list will not show duplicate materials.Added new licensing system with perpetual and subscription options.Added an indicator to the user library icon to indicate when a user is logged in.Added help buttons, menu and about window.Added macroscript to open manager directly.Currently only from Material Manager to viewport and material slots in compact material editor You can use the wild-card search with instant results that a blazingly fast, change and edit attributes, add comments, rate presets, create favorites and many more. Really, who wants to loose time by re-locating lost bitmaps …īut MATERIAL MANAGER has much more to offer. MATERIAL MANAGER stores the bitmaps in a central library database to ensure that bitmaps are found when materials are loaded. Finding materials was really never faster!īesides this new way of finding and loading presets, the MATERIAL MANAGER also manages bitmaps in a completely new way. Just select the combination of attributes and the preset manager will show you the materials that fit these attributes. The times are over where you needed to dive through folders to find the material you need. Material presets can now have ATTRIBUTES that can easily be filtered with the integrated attribute filters. The VP MATERIAL MANAGER is a new innovative tool to manage materials, maps and bitmaps within 3DS MAX® in ways never possible before.