haha, yeah I didn't really intend to stop working on the FAQ / MatRoom tuts. Actually, I'm after exceeding the level of my Cloth Room ones - and make them more accessible using video, and yes I will finish the Cloth Room stuff before Chrismas :-)

An EZMat question in the meantime.

When translating scenes to LuxRender (via Pose2Lux or Reality) or to Octane, the support for all the pretty advanced things in Material Room is quite limited. The translations can handle most of the PoserSurface channels en the image-map node as well, but large node-trees plugged into Alt-Diffuse will get lost. Simply stated; when you can't get it done in the Simple interface to MatRoom, it's likely that you won't get it exported to LuxRender / Octane / any other external render out there.

Hence it might be relevant for some users to have a tool which simpifies things, and uses the common channels Diffuse, Specular etc to their best.
Can EZMat play a role in this or is it leaning heavily on the Alt-... channels instead?

And next...

Please do send me (site mail) the questions you want to get addressed in the MatRoom FAQ / Tuts, and whether you're willing to proof-read my concept texts. The more feedback in advance, the better I guess.

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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though