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Material/Map Browser 1257

First, you must enable mental ray extensions by

using the

mental ray Preferences panel (page

3–867)

.Inaddition,youmustassignthemental

ray renderer as the currently active renderer.

Once y ou have enabled the extensions and the

renderer, when you use the Browser, it shows

mental ray materials and shaders. Materials ar e

displayed with a yellow sphere, rather than blue

for standard materials, and shaders are displayed

with a yellow parallelogram, rather than green for

standard maps.

mentalraymapsinthebrowser’slistareshownwithyellow

icons.

When yo u use the

mental ray Connec tion rollout

(page 2–1305)

,orothershaderbuttonsspecific

to mental r ay materials and shaders, the shaders

that appear in the Browser’s list are restricted to

those that the mental ray renderer allows for that

particular shader component. By default, only

shaders that ship with 3ds Max are listed. If you

have acquired other shader librar ies, you might

see the names of shaders that are not mentioned in

this reference.

Note: You can see the listing of materials, maps,

or shaders that are incompatible with the current

renderer, if you turn on the Incompatible toggle in

the Show group, as described under “Interface,”

below.