DropToSlate

Create maps in renderer class

Bitmaps are created as V-Ray, Corona, Redshift or F-Storm maps — the class follows the renderer of the current scene. Standard Bitmap can be forced per renderer.

Real-World Resize with size presets

Set the physical size in any unit, keep the proportions, and store your own width/height presets. Triplanar maps are resized through their scale and blending value.

Texture sequences become one MultiMap

Drop a whole sequence and get one multi map with a texture per slot, in the right order: RS_Multi_Map, CoronaMultiMap, VRayMultiSubTex or FStormMultiTex. The names may differ by numbers only.

UDIM tileset in one map

UDIM tiles are detected automatically: V-Ray gets a tagged map, Corona a MultiTile, Redshift its tiling mode. No duplicate nodes for the same tileset.

UVTILE tileset in one map

Mudbox style u/v tiles are recognised the same way, so a whole tileset takes a single node in the Material Editor.

Everything in DropToSlate 2.0

Drop

• Bitmaps are created in the class of the active renderer: V-Ray (VrayHDRI), Corona (CoronaBitmap), Redshift (RS_Bitmap), F-Storm (FStormBitmap) or standard Bitmap. HDR files always go to VRayHDRI in V-Ray.
• HDR files are detected by bit depth, not only by extension: float formats and anything above 16 bit per channel.
• HDR gamma 1.0 option: HDR files are loaded with gamma 1.0 regardless of the gamma hotkey.
• Drop *.osl shader files, *.cube and *.3dl LUT files (V-Ray and Corona), *.mat material libraries and, optionally, *.max files as libraries.
• Drop bitmaps with relative paths.
• UDIM and UVTILE tilesets are recognised by name and turned into a single tiled map.
• Texture sequences are grouped into a single multi map, one texture per slot.
• Per-renderer settings: V-Ray, Corona and Redshift keep their own map class, color space and OCIO options; the section of an engine that is not installed is hidden.
• Hotkey modifiers for three separate actions: open Real-World Resize, override gamma, tile by texture aspect ratio. Each one can be Disabled, Shift, Ctrl, Alt or Always.
• Default gamma mode: Auto (leave it to the renderer) or a custom value, with the hotkey override taking priority.
• Drop listeners API: other scripts can subscribe to the drop callback without stealing it from DropToSlate.

Resize

• Real-World Resize of selected maps in any unit, keeping the aspect ratio, with unlimited custom presets.
• Apply on the second click in a preset list, so presets are never applied while you edit them.
• Triplanar support (Corona, F-Storm): one switch with a blending value right in the resize dialog.
• Right click on Apply: turn real-world and triplanar off and reset tiling to 1:1.
• Ctrl + right click on Apply: the same, and the tiling follows the aspect ratio of the texture.

Slate

• Open the first dropped texture in the Parameter Editor.
• Focus Slate after the drop.
• Auto Open Nodeslots option for 3ds Max 2024.1 and newer.
• Fixed the “duplicating View1 after Reset” Slate bug.
• Dropped nodes are stacked by the real height of a cluster, so multi maps and tilesets never overlap.