Scene Conversion

Iray for 3ds Max provides tools to convert your existing mental ray® or Autodesk scenes into Iray. You can convert all Lights, Materials and Environments, or any combination of the three. You can even convert individual scene objects.

When you switch your renderer to Iray+ or Iray+ Interactive you will be given the opportunity to convert any non-Iray+ materials or lighting in your scene.

Converting multiple objects

To launch the Iray+ Scene Converter, from the 3ds Max menu bar select Iray > Iray+ Scene Converter. Alternatively, right-click in the active viewport and select Iray+ Scene Converter… from the quad menu:

Conversion:

• Mental ray® Sun/Sky and Skylights: converts lighting, including mental ray® Sun and Sky (Daylight) to Iray+ Physical Sky. Any Incompatible lights will not be converted. If you want the X, Y, and Z position of the mental ray® Sun to be converted with the scene, you will need to set it up using the 'Date, Time, and Location' controls within the Modify panel. Positioning the mental ray® Sun manually will mean that its X, Y, and Z positions are not converted.
✱  Note: when converting a mental ray® Sun/Sky, the Sky object will remain in the scene after conversion. This will be ignored by the Iray+ renderer. The Iray+ Physical Sky system created in the conversion contains both sun and sky effects.
• Environment Settings: recreates environments as Iray+ IBL environments and matches settings.
• Materials: recreates materials with Iray+ materials taking across any maps at the correct scale.
  • Remove Unused Materials: removes all mental ray® materials from your material library after completing a conversion, and replaces them with the Iray+ materials. Leaving this unticked will result in the material library displaying both the mental ray® and Iray+ materials together.
• Log to Maxscript Listener: sends completed conversion details to the MaxScript Listener window, where more details can be read.
• Convert: starts the conversion process. You will be given the opportunity to save your file, as the conversion can not be undone.

Conversion Status:

• Lists objects in your scene as well as their type. Each column is sortable. Other columns include:
  • Status: indicates conversion status. Items that won't be converted will display Directly Supported by Iray or Not Supported, etc. Before conversion, compatible items will have the status Ready to Convert; after conversion, their status will be Converted.
  • Details: provides advice and details about the conversion status.
• Select in Viewport: objects selected under Conversion Status are also selected in the viewport. This is useful for quickly creating selection sets, deleting or taking other actions on multiple items.
• View Documentation: displays this page in your default browser.

Compatibility with scene conversion

Materials

Maps

The commonly used maps are listed below. Assume that any map not listed is not supported.

Lights

See Also:

• Iray+ Material Library Converter

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