3ds Max - Slate Material Editor Tips

[@lazar_design]

I wish i could learn it earlier, but its never late! Thank man a lot!

[@zshawn676]

in the current days that every uploader's video is all about present themselves and show their funny faces, your video is such a fresh and clean wash for our soul

[@avinashjangir5796]

This is powerful video for slate material editor user. Thanks for sharing your experience. ❣️❣️

[@ChipMatthews]

This was incredibly useful. I've been using Slate for a long time and your video was full of stuff I never knew. Thanks so much for taking the time to share this.

[@V_A_Kamas]

HI, I love it! Please do continue with tutorials! In every category I learned something new. Here is small token of gratitude: 0:00 Introduction 0:35 1) Get two minitors 2:43 2) Groups and Favorites 5:10 3) Material Libraries 1:36 4) Hotkeys 13:29 5) Previewing materials/maps 15:56 6) Miltiple tabs 17:22 7) Preferences window 18:42 8) Controllers for instancing 22:04 9) Node regions 24:58 10) Scene materials and sample slots 27:18 Outro PS: some tutorial on how to troll GPU raytracer would be nice.

[@LudvikKoutnyArt]

Hey, thanks a lot! Gonna respectfully steal it and add it to video description :) As for the GPU raytracers.... that depends. Some are quite solid, like Redshift or Fstorm. Others deserve to be trolled, like iRay, Octane or Furryball :D

[@V_A_Kamas]

Ha, you even stole my typo at 6th bullet point. Glad to be of some small help. Yes, I meant Furryball mainly. But I accidentaly delleted it :(

[@LudvikKoutnyArt]

Hehe, yes. Shameless copypasta. And I will keep the typo there to amplify my shame :D

[@raoulraoul7129]

I love it and hate it at the same time. I lost a lot of time at arranging a lot of materials in multiple slate views and now they just dissapeared from the already saved scene. With compact editor is never happened.Now with your help, and OMG thank you a lot, i found out that i can display the materials directly from the saved library, no need to arrange them in "Views" OMG THANK YOUUUU

[@BioClone]

as long the material is used in the scene it still will be there. if by any chance you get it removed from the view, you can search it on the materials tab or otherwise use "show all materials in the scene" to get it back (however all posible order you made to the nodes will dissapear)

[@raoulraoul7129]

@@BioClone Yea,thx,i just realised that

[@alexilaiho1st]

I was super late to bed, but every second of this gem was worth it, thanks mate.

[@rexyduplex]

Best tutorial I ever seen about material editor use.

[@poshellinteriors]

The controllers for instancing section blew my mind

[@revolverich]

You are a great teacher. Informative, well paced and offering some great tips and relevant detail. Thank you....

[@unbelievabubble]

Love you yr work man. I've used slate at hobby level for several years now and I just learnt so much from this video. Thanks!

[@jaseem7]

Awesome tutorial maan. Just when I thought I know everything about slate material editor. Great tips, Thank you very much.

[@jantru3D]

That was very helpful, thank you very much! I've never used slate material editor, but after this tutorial it will definietly change :) Your quality of tutorials is great. I would definitely want to see more.

[@doanvancolo]

The only thing I can say is CONGRATUATIONS. Tkx a lot for taking your time to give a so precious knowledge.👏

[@erkut1453]

Very useful tips.Thanks for the effort.Keep them coming.

[@антон-б1м]

awesome tricks, thank you very much for sharing em! :) also the best tutorial about slate mtl editor I've ever seen.

[@stephanechataignie]

Amazing, i was using Slate Material for years without never knew this things !!! I only understand now that I could have won hours ... Sad :)) Thanks mate, beautiful work as usual ;)

[@alpherbethe]

This is just what I needed. Thanks a lot!...learnt so many things.

[@WalterVASSE]

Thanks ! I learned a lot of things, I think I was finally jump to this Slate Material editor..

[@nnamdiakubuiro]

Brilliant Tutorial.... Thanks for this

[@RolandXtri]

As usual your tutorial is wonderful, clear and so very useful. Thanks a lot ludvik Roland

[@lexymartone7341]

Great video! It was very helpful and I will be referencing it often!

[@robob3ar]

plenty of stuff I was unaware, you forgot to mention copy pasting, ctrl shift move, and when you hold ctrl alt and move it's the same as the alt c.. shift move is copying of individual nodes - but it's great, I was looking for some in depth slate tips, there's probably more

[@dimitrispappas2411]

Perfect tutorial, thank you very much Ludvík i'll waiting for the next one.

[@gurubhaitube]

best tutorial on youtube. plz make more such

[@shariftanwer4219]

Bro you saved my so much time...

[@joelwesterveltaia2196]

Thanks for an informative tutorial. Very nice.

[@Katij6gi]

Thank you for this video. It is really helpful. I have a problem with laying out all the children. If I select material and press C the window appears with a text "no camera in scene" or if I have camera in scene it goes to camera view. I use to use the C for laying out children all the time and I do not know why it doesn't understand that I am at the material editor window and the shortcut C is not working. Do you have any suggestions?

[@ouaees]

Thanks for the useful tutorial :) I was wondering about two things, -the first is if I have a material or map that is attached to more than one parent, how can I grab all the wires to put them into another map at once -the second, if I have map on the slate window, How can I copy or instance it to Dialougs outside of it, like the environmetn map, or vraydisplacment map. or other things? Thanks again :)

[@fatma_2024]

Thank you, you make the best tuturials, an you are the profesional 3d Artist 👏🏻🌟

[@tausifkhan2189]

You are pro. Thnks so much for sharing your knowledge. Wondering why did you stopped making 3ds max tutorial.

[@egorshumanskii8026]

Great and useful. Want more! )))

Stunning tut, thank you a lot!

[@vbenkovskyy]

You saved me a month! :)

[@pushwindersingh5886]

good man.... make some more videos buddy.... i want to learn more things from you... ur expiation way too much good...

[@tagore4d]

superb tutorial... Thank you very much for this info.

[@aileenflorencia3430]

thank very helpful ^^ and how can i see my end result,my material in object? went i use vray material light in my material , to making a picture background for background image at my window

[@amitshneor1]

hey ludvik ! this tutorial changed my life for switching to SME , so thanks ! a small question : is there a way, maybe in maxscript or other way, to enlarge the materials thumbnails i have in the sme to their big thumbnail ? for now it is small by default and for every node i need to see large i need to double click it....any way i could have all of them at once show up as large thumbs? Thanks ! love your corona tutorials also ! Cheers !

[@LudvikKoutnyArt]

I can't think of any way to make that default, unfortunately. I do think it's possible to select multiple nodes and toggle it on all of them via some of the options in the top bar menu. I do not remember and I do not use 3ds Max anymore, so unfortunately I can not check :(

[@amitshneor1]

@@LudvikKoutnyArt wow ! thanks for the fast respons ! im sorry to hear you not using max anymore....there is not an option anywhere in the ui to scale the thumbs only the double click it...and it doesnt work for multiple nodes......well, thanks anyway man !

[@michalrech]

Máš skvělou výslovnost. Až v pátý minutě když si vyslovoval "V-ray" a "corona" tak mě napadlo jestli nejsi čech :) :D Skvělej tutorial jinak. Snažim se přeučit z Blenderu na 3Dsmax a bohužel na max neni tolik dobrejch tutoriálů, jako na Blender.

[@darkori1]

Dude you are awesome! Thank you very very Much!

[@EderXavier3D]

you really rock, tnx a lot man!!

[@MotionPunk]

Cool stuff! I must mention here, that the controllers thing is also bad for artists and not visible in compact material editor, which i find using equally as slate. Autodesk could do at some point a projection node or something similar (as octane has). Thanks for the info

[@LudvikKoutnyArt]

Autodesk could, but they won't... They are too busy doing useless shit :D

[@MotionPunk]

Well i tried put it polite haha. cheers

[@guimcast1]

Can't thank you enough. You rock!

[@mathieulanglois3259]

Thank you, this was really helpful.

[@attiahaly8030]

Thanks for your Tutorial , really it's very helpful

[@HungViet-rz7kl]

Thank you! Very helpful!

[@vizarchs715]

How to replace the material on a selected object from the slate material dialog box. In compact mode, you can always copy material and paste it on the other material to replace it.

[@roman2545]

It's really help! Thank u! But how can i do colored background of mat, cos i've got only grey one?

[@Samuraicbl]

Just the float controllers for tiling justify the use of Slate Material!

[@loozack7309]

Maybe I will finally stop hating this Slate witchcraft now. As always it's a pleasure to watch your tutorials, keep them coming.

[@edudias2]

very useful totorial!! tks!

[@777Skyworx]

very helpful! thanks

[@TaXeJota]

awesome!! I have a question. anybody knows how to connect a point to several inputs?

[@1DInciner]

Yeah, I rememer this) The ability to put a single node to a several materials worth it though.

[@dConceptdk]

I have loved it from the beginning, and it is the ONLY WAY to work correctly. It's like AfterEffects vs. any Node based compositor, After Effects is basically useless compared to the node based compositors. In other words, thousands of clics or a few clics :)

[@josefsvoboda5943]

thanks nice tut

[@emresenoglu]

Wait, I recognize your voice.. Don't you work for Corona now?

[@LudvikKoutnyArt]

No, but I did back when I was using 3ds Max :)

[@greennature1045]

nice

[@terrablader]

great

[@andrewtomilin6942]

wow