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MATERIALHAUS for 3ds Max

Your MATERIALHAUS library docked in 3ds Max. Select objects, click a material, and it goes on as a Corona material at the size it measures in the world.

Download for 3ds MaxHow to install
Status
Beta
Version
0.1.0
Supports
3ds Max 2024–2025
System
Windows
The library panel, inside 3ds Max — a real capture, with sample materials

WHAT IT DOES

  1. 01

    The library docked beside the command panel, and a MATERIALHAUS menu to bring it back.

  2. 02

    Select objects and click Apply: a Corona Physical material, or 3ds Max’s own Physical Material where Corona is not installed.

  3. 03

    The texture arrives at its real-world size: every map at the size it covers, and a real-world UVW Map on each object, whatever its size or orientation.

  4. 04

    Colour, roughness, metalness and normal maps connected, the normal map turned the way 3ds Max reads it. Displacement when you ask for it, at the depth the material states.

  5. 05

    Apply the same material twice and the one in the scene is reused, in one undo step.

INSTALL

In four steps.

Download for 3ds Maxmaterialhaus-3dsmax-0.1.0.mzp
  1. Download the .mzp file.
  2. Drag it onto a 3ds Max viewport. It installs itself and opens the panel.
  3. Next time, open it from the MATERIALHAUS menu (in 3ds Max 2025, after the next start).
  4. Sign in once. Your browser opens; use Google or email, whichever you use on MATERIALHAUS.

GOOD TO KNOW

Said plainly

  • Run inside 3ds Max 2024 and 2025 on Windows, with and without Corona. Other releases have not been tried yet, so they are not listed.
  • Each object gets a UVW Map named “MATERIALHAUS real-world”, at the top of its stack. That is what keeps the size right on any object; remove it and the texture follows the object’s own mapping instead.
  • Relief maps made by MATERIALHAUS are estimated from the colour, not measured; the panel says which, as the website does. V-Ray and the website’s editor inside 3ds Max are not in this version.
  • The plug-in talks only to materialhaus.com. Nothing about your scene leaves your computer, and there is no usage tracking.

Working in other software as well?

Beta · SketchUp 2025MATERIALHAUS for SketchUpSelect faces, groups or components and click a material. It goes on in one undo step.SketchUp extension →Beta · Revit 2026MATERIALHAUS for RevitA MATERIALHAUS tab in the ribbon, and the library docked beside the Properties palette.Revit add-in →

SketchUp is a trademark of Trimble Inc. Autodesk, Revit and 3ds Max are trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. Corona is a trademark of Chaos. MATERIALHAUS is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these companies.