Extension Pack for MARI

• Where to find it:

• Shelf Palette / MEP_MaterialPresets Tab

• Layers Palette / Add Multi-Channel Layer / Materials

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• Available Presets
• Preset Usage
• Swapping Presets

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Extension Pack installs several Material Presets both to the MEP_MaterialPresets of the Shelf Palette as well as to the

list of Material Templates of the Material Ingest Tool.

Material Presets are fully authored Material Templates with a set of exposed parameters, that you can start using directly in your workflows.

The Material Presets available in the Material Presets Shelf Tab

Since Mari Materials are bound to a specific Shader Type (e.g Vray, Arnold etc.), different presets for different Shader Types

are available:

• 3Delight UV & 3Delight Triplanar

Material Presets for the 3Delight Shader as it is used in Katana.

• Arnold Complex UV & Arnold Complex Triplanar

Material Presets for the Arnold Standard Surface Shader as it is used for example inside of Maya.

The Complex Variants of these Material Presets include a large number of controls on the Material.

• Arnold Reduced UV & Arnold Reduced Triplanar

Material Presets for the Arnold Standard Surface Shader as it is used for example inside of Maya.

The Reduced Variants of these Material Presets only include a small number of frequently used exposed parameters.

• BRDF UV & BRDF Triplanar

Material Presets for the standard Mari BRDF Shader

• Principled UV & Principled Triplanar

Material Presets for the standard Mari Disney Principled BRDF Shader

• Unreal Advanced UV & Unreal Advanced Triplanar

Material Presets for the Unreal Advanced Shader shipping with Extension Pack

• Vray Complex UV & Vray Complex Triplanar

Material Presets for the Vray Shader.

The Complex Variants of these Material Presets include a large number of controls on the Material.

• Vray Reduced UV & Vray Reduced Triplanar

Material Presets for the Vray Shader.

The Reduced Variants of these Material Presets only include a small number of frequently used exposed parameters.

• pxrSurface Artistic Complex UV & pxrSurface Artistic Complex Triplanar

Material Presets for the pxrSurface Renderman Shader.

The Complex Variants of these Material Presets include a large number of controls on the Material.

The Material is configured to work best with the Artistic Mode of the Shader.

• pxrSurface Artistic Reduced UV & pxrSurface Artistic Reduced Triplanar

Material Presets for the pxrSurface Renderman Shader.

The Reduced Variants of these Material Presets only include a small number of frequently used exposed parameters.

The Material is configured to work best with the Artistic Mode of the Shader.

• pxrSurface Physical Complex UV & pxrSurface Physical Complex Triplanar

Material Presets for the pxrSurface Renderman Shader.

The Complex Variants of these Material Presets include a large number of controls on the Material.

The Material is configured to work best with the Physical Mode of the Shader.

• pxrSurface Physical Reduced UV & pxrSurface Physical Reduced Triplanar

Material Presets for the pxrSurface Renderman Shader.

The Reduced Variants of these Material Presets only include a small number of frequently used exposed parameters.

The Material is configured to work best with the Physical Mode of the Shader.

Presets can be loaded and used in multiple ways:

• In the Layer Palette drag and drop a preset from the Shelf into the Layerstack

• In the Layer Palette load a preset from the 'Add Multi-Channel Layer' Submenu

• In the Nodegraph drag and drop a preset from the Shelf into the Graph

• In the Mari Material Ingest Tool found in the Tools Menu, select a preset from the Material Template dropdown

Iit is possible to swap between Material Presets using

• Swap Layer Type
• Swap Node Type

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