Phew, I mean, damn I need some sleep. Because all the frustration of building the new render slave and THEN realizing something's very wrong with 3ds Max about those material controllers I have some kind of creative deficit or something. Not like in "I'm not doing anything!" way, no, more like "I'm doing all this crap and yet still no new renders, argh!" way.
So I've spent all weekend and today night writing an material extension to my already nifty plugin. And you know what? It's even better than it used to be with using only materials! This version is not a final one of course, but I can continue working on my stuff...
...or so I thought! Just as I was typing the last line of code, this happened:

Maybe it's not clear, but I managed to spill some coffee on my keyboard and it's acting up like crazy. I guess lack of sleep finally caught up to me and made my hands fumble... This is like denial torture or something, just let me rendeeeer! >_<
Anyways, guys, girls & guns. As soon as I'll fix my keyboard (using a really chunky stand-in atm) I'll finally render something fun and new.
And maybe then I'll sleep a bit...