Converting selected material editor to .ini file or something that can be edited

Submitted by fajar on Sat, 2012-02-04 19:09

Hello everyone, I have a question , does it posible to converting selected material editor (parameter, eventho it has many sub or it multisub) to ini file so I can import/read it n recreate it in lower max version using those script, I ve seen it bobo BFF file format converter...but still dont know how it work.....

Thank you very much

Best regard

Fajar

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Submitted by Anubis on Wed, 2012-02-08 08:39.

use .mat export

Hey Fajar,
this is a tedious task for scripting, with data lost anyway, but you can use the native .mat format 'cause it is a version independent. So no scripting necessary at all. * Note that if you have newever mat/maps (not backward compatible) you should convert them in place (before export) anyway. In some cases using OBJ exporter may save your time for converting materials, but its a dirty (Plan-B) method.

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Submitted by fajar on Sun, 2012-02-05 11:58.

Thank you brot for

Thank you brot for input....dont know how far it can be, cos Im not maxscripter

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Submitted by br0t on Sun, 2012-02-05 14:04.

as far as I remember, there

as far as I remember, there should be methods to get ALL parameters of a material, and you could save them as strings to a file, then in your older max version, load them from there and create a material from the same type, then try to set all parameters the same, if they exist. I guess that is an issue that arose many times in the past, so maybe there is a script for this already, does anyone know?

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Submitted by Anubis on Wed, 2012-02-08 08:44.

BFF?

The BFF (Bobo's File Format) do this.

Original version (2006) by Borislav Petrov:
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/bff-bobos-file-format

First update (2007) by Raul Ortega Palacios:
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/bff-2007

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Submitted by br0t on Sun, 2012-02-05 04:10.

Hey, I don't know of any

Hey, I don't know of any existing script that does this, but it should be not much of a problem with MXS - just an awful lot of work :(

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