Recently at my school they upgraded from 3ds max 2006 to 2008, the old 2006 had a very extensive material library (*.mil). The 3ds max 2008 and 3ds max 9 32 bit I use do not contain any single materials that are not based around a simple color, IE the brick is only a color, while in 2006 version the brick was actually textured with grout and all aspects of ratio could be applied to make it as real as possible.

I need to render a house for a project and no one at my school seems to know.

Any help appreciated.

Material library....how to make....etc etc.

Could someone atleast suggest another forum to try