Materials Menu (Enhanced)

Provides tools for creating, editing, and managing materials and maps.

Interface

Create/Edit Materials

• Edit Selected Object's Material

  Opens the Slate Material Editor with the active View focused on the material for the selected object, and the material's parameters displayed in the Parameter Editor.

  If multiple objects are selected, this choice is not available.

• Compact Material Editor

  Opens the Compact Material Editor.

• Slate Material Editor

  Opens the Slate Material Editor.

Create/Edit Maps

• Paint Bitmap

  Opens the Viewport Canvas tool.

• Bake Maps (Render to Texture)

  Opens the Render to Texture dialog.

• Render Surface Map

  Opens the Render Surface Map tool.

Tools (Material Set)

• Material Explorer

  Opens the Material Explorer.

• Material/Map Browser Toggle

  Opens or closes the Material/Map Browser.

• Channel Info

  Opens the Channel Info utility.

• Color Clipboard

  Opens the Color Clipboard utility.

• Asset Tracking

  Opens the Asset Tracking dialog, where you can manage the status and location of map files.

• Configure User Paths

  Opens the Configure User Paths dialog, where you can manage the file paths that are associated with the current MAX scene.

UVs, Maps and Materials Modifiers

Each of these choices applies the modifier to the current object selection.

• UVW Map
• Unwrap UVW
• Camera Map
• Camera Map (WSM)
• Map Scaler
• Map Scaler (WSM)
• Projection
• UVW Mapping Add
• UVW Mapping Clear
• UVW XForm
• Material
• Material By Element