importing downloaded material to material-editor ?

[material]

hey

I have downloadet material, opened it with winrar, put it in the materiallibrary ( I don´t know if the picture, should be there to ? )
Then I choose, a slot in the material editor, hit "standard", choose Mtl.library, open, ect, ect.

but when it is in the slot, in the material editor, there is a black circel, surrounded, by colors ???

pleace help

[AubreyM]

The colors are most likely the background that is used to help see reflections in the material. If your material is black, well that could be due to several reasons.
A. The material or color in the diffuse channel IS black.
B. The diffuse color is black but there is a missing bitmap in the slot.
C. A sub material is selected.

If it was Vray I's also add a dirtmap as to why it is black. Other than that unless I was to see a screen shot or had the material there is not much else I can tell you.

[Russell L. Thomas]

If there are texture files with the material, they need to be in the appropriate "maps" directory and your material file needs to point to that location or it needs to be in your default paths for Max. In other words, your program needs to know where to find the material files.

[material]

Hey

just want to say thanks, I have found the solution to the problem

[AubreyM]

Hey

just want to say thanks, I have found the solution to the problem

I'm glad you found the problem. It would be good if you posted the solution to your problem so that other people that may have the same problem in the future can read it when searching the forums.