What do I need to use MDL material files in DS?

Sfariah D

I found some free MDL material files at adobe stock but I was wondering if they are useable in DS or Poser 11?

algovincian

MDL is an Iray thing - don't know about Poser, but I don't think so. You may want to check out this thread:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/59018/playing-around-with-iray-mdl/p1

- Greg

SlimerJSpud

These are an interseting set of materials. In order to use the MDL material files, you either need to go through the Shader Builder or Shader Mixer, as described in the above link. MCDLabs made a set of DS Iray shader presets to go with the MDL files, to make them easier to use. Installing the MDL shaders is tricky, because you have to download the main files from Nvidia, then move them into the correct location in the data directory of Daz Studio. See here:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3821046/#Comment_3821046

http://www.sharecg.com/v/91698/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/vMaterials-1.5-AEC-IRay-Shaders

I forgot to mention that the download from Nvidia is 1 GB!