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Mads Drøschler has released a free 3ds Max tool for converting V-Ray and Corona scenes to Arnold. The supported materials include V-Ray materials, shaders, lights and Corona material, as well as various maps.
The converter features
The features supported so far include…
- Vray Materials: Vray material, 2 sided material,light material, Blend Material
- Vray Shaders: Vray color (OSL), dirt map, HDRI map, normal map, Vray Sky
- Vray Lights: Area light, portal light, disc light, mesh light, point light
- Corona Materials: Corona material
- Corona Shaders: AO, Normal map, Triplanar, Corona Color, Bitmap
Download
The Arnold Converter has so far been tested by the developer with 3ds Max 2020—the free download is available via Github and on the website.
Further information: To the website
