Modify existing materials

Submitted by ghoulfool on Fri, 2010-07-30 06:16

Hi. I'm new to scripting and I'm currently working on script to modify existing materials that have been applied to objects.
There are several objects in the scene with different materials (and different textures) and the plan is to all unify them with certain values (self illuminating, blur, diffuse, specular, ambient etc) I can assign a *new* material to all the objects, but that's not what I want to do. I need to make a few changes (en masse) to the assigned materials and I'm not sure how to do that - me being new to scripting and all. Any suggestions? Thank you.

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Submitted by ghoulfool on Mon, 2010-08-02 06:14.

Thank you Insanto, that makes

Thank you Insanto, that makes a lot of sense and the code comments are appreciated as well!
And interesting there is no "purple" in MAXscript : but I worked out it was local col = color X Y Z for individual colours.

Submitted by Graph on Sun, 2010-08-01 11:21.

i wrote it in a way so you

i wrote it in a way so you can expand on it quite easily, you just gotta know the class of the material and the settings

if you wanna find out the class you use:
classOf meditMaterials[1] --returns class of the materialEditor's first slot

to get the propertyNames and types you use:
showproperties meditMaterials[1]

-add the class to the classFilterFN function
-add a new case for the added materialClass with it's properties you wish to change

have phun

Raphael Steves

Submitted by titane357 on Sun, 2010-08-01 10:39.

cool, Insanto could it be

cool, Insanto
could it be possible to have a line for Vray material too ? thanx

Submitted by Graph on Fri, 2010-07-30 13:22.

i suggest: ( local

i suggest:

(	
 
 
	local mats = #()																												-- create the empty array
 
	fn classFilterFN mat = classOf mat == Arch___Design__mi OR classOf mat == standardMaterial	-- function to filter all materialClasses that are to be modified
 
	for obj in geometry do																										--loop through the geometry
	(
		local mat = obj.material																								-- assign the current object's material to a variable cuz im a lazy typer
 
		if mat != undefined do																									-- check if the object has a material at all
		(
			if classOf mat != multisubmaterial then																		-- check if the material is a multiSub-object-material
			(
				if classFilterFN mat do																							-- check if the material's class  is in the ones to be modified
				(
					mats[mats.count+1] = mat																								-- append the material to the 'mats' array
				)
			)
			else																														-- if it is a multiSub-object-material..
			(
				for m in mat.materials do																						--loop through the multiSub-object-material's materials
				(
					if classFilterFN mat do 																						-- check if the current material's class is in the ones to be modified
					(
						mats[mats.count+1] = mat																							-- append the material to the 'mats' array
					)
				)
			)
		)
	)
 
 
	for mat in mats do																											-- loop through the materials collected previously
	(
		local col = green
 
		case (classOf mat) of																									-- handle each material class diffrently
		(
			Standardmaterial : ( mat.diffuse = col )
 
			Arch___Design__mi : ( mat.diff_color = col )
		)
	)
 
 
)