TexConvert

A Texture converter for VRay and C4DtoA - alSurface

• Gets VRay material.
• Gets active material layers.
• Gets data from active layers.
• Stores active layer data.
• Create C4DtoA shader network.
• Create alShader node.
• Applies stored VRay data to alShader node, creating necessary nodes (eg. image, bitmap, noise, bump2d etc.)

---

How to use

• Simply import the script into C4D's script manager
• Select the material you wish to convert
• Click execute and bam! it should have converted it. There are some limitations being worked on

---

Current Limitations

• Not all features of the VRay material can translate across yet...
• Only tested using a VRayAdvancedMaterial
• No support for textures inside filters, c4d noises or builtin elements such as checkerboard.
• Will convert multiple VRay materials at a time Unknown upper limit

---

What does convert:

• Bump

  • Texture Map
  • Bump amount

• Luminosity Layer

  • Colour
  • Amount
  • Texture Map (if present)

• Specular Layer 2

  • Colour
  • Brightness
  • Texture Map (if present)
  • Fresnel IOR
  • Reflection Glossiness
  • Reflection Glossiness Texture Map (if present)
  • Anisotropy
  • Anisotropy Texture Map (if preset)
  • Anisotropy Rotation

• Specular Layer 2

  • Colour
  • Brightness
  • Texture Map (if present)
  • Fresnel IOR
  • Reflection Glossiness
  • Reflection Glossiness Texture Map (if present)
  • Anisotropy
  • Anisotropy Texture Map (if preset)
  • Anisotropy Rotation

• Diffuse Layer 1

  • Colour
  • Brightness
  • Texture Map (if present)
  • Transparency Colour
  • Transparency Amount
  • Transparency Texture Map (if present)
  • Roughness
  • Roughness Texture Map (if present)

• Refraction Layer

  • Colour
  • Brightness
  • Texture Map (if present)
  • IOR
  • Glossiness
  • Glossiness Texture Map (if present)

• SSS Layer

  This is more of a template transfer to get your texture map / colours across.
  Refinement will be needed on the radius / depth and weightings

  • Scale
  • Overall Colour (colour 1 in AlSurface)
  • Overall Colour Texture Map (if present)
  • Sub Surface Colour (colour 2 in AlSurface)
  • Sub Surface Colour Texture Map (if present)
  • Scatter Colour (colour 3 in AlSurface)
  • Scatter Colour Texture Map (if present)

---