Fforge Manager v 2.0

Fforge Manager is a big upgrade to Fast PBR Materials. It serves as a material creation script as well as a material, geometry, lights, cameras, vdb, HDRI and texture manager.

Overview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoQTr4xO1uA

Clients of Fast PBR Materials are eligble for a FREE update. Email me (email further down in Contact) so you can get a copy.

Features

- Creates the following standard materials : RedshiftMaterial, aiStandardSurface, VRayMtl

- Creates the following blend materials : RedshiftMaterialBlender, aiMixShader, VRayBlendMtl

- Maps supported :

Albedo, Specular, Roughness, Gloss, Normal, Bump, Opacity, AO, Metalness, Emission, Translucency, Displacement, Empty(just a file connected to the main 2dPlacement Node)

- Autopopulate maps from directory based on several naming conventions. You can also add your own naming conventions for each map.

- Autopopulate maps from single file after analyzing the name of the texture map.

- Recover material attributes (standard and blend) and continue working on it.

- Rename Materials, and their shading network.

- Duplicate Materials and their shading network and rename the whole network.

- Copy, transfer the textures associated with the current material to a new path, and apply the new path if you want to.

- Save to library supports : Materials, Objects, Lights, Cameras, VDB files/Volumes, HDRI maps, Texture maps. 

- Export as : Ma, Mb, Obj, Fbx, Vdb, Rs(redshift proxy), Ass(Arnold proxy) and Vrmesh(VRay proxy)

- Create dome lights from HDRI map or grab the HDRI map from a dome light.

- Create volumes from vdb files or grab the vdb file from a volume.

- Connect texture file dirrectly from the library to a file

- Grab texture files from a material and save to library.

- Extract files from ZIP files to the library.

Important

The script does NOT contain any materials, geometry, lights, cameras, volumes or Textures.

It only contains 1 HDRI map.

Note for Arnold users, it works with Arnold 5+.

Tested with Maya 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022.

License Types

Each Fforge Manager license is activated for one computer.

After purchase, all lisence types are fit for commercial use. However, this product cannot be resold or redistributed.

The standard package includes one (1) seat.

Indie includes ten (10) seats. (30% discount, save $105)

Studio includes thirty (30) seats. (40% discount, save $420)

If you need more than 30 seats, please contact me so we can arrange something according to your needs.

Contact

If you have any issues, inquiries or requests, please don't hesitate to drop an email at farmakis.stavros@gmail.com