How to loop the materials in the Slate Material Editor ?

Submitted by Rodman on Sat, 2012-09-22 03:56

How to loop the materials in the Slate Material Editor ?

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Submitted by barigazy on Sat, 2012-09-22 11:28.

Yes because you need

Yes because you need maxObject material to create node inside SME View. But after creation you can delete tempObject

ActiveSMEView = sme.GetView (sme.activeView)
mtl = Standard name:"TestMat" diffuse:green
mtlpos = [0,0]
tempObj = TargetObject material:mtl isHidden:on
ActiveSMEView.CreateNode tempObj.material &mtlpos
delete tempObj

bga

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Submitted by barigazy on Sat, 2012-09-22 11:41.

edit

Also you can use this if you need more then one material

ActiveSMEView = sme.GetView (sme.activeView)
tempObj = TargetObject isHidden:on
mtlpos = [0,0]
for m in 1 to 10 do
(
	tempObj.material = Standard name:("StdMtl_"+m as string) diffuse:(random black white)
	ActiveSMEView.CreateNode tempObj.material &mtlpos
	mtlpos.x = 180*m
) 
delete tempObj

bga

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Submitted by Rodman on Sat, 2012-09-22 15:11.

I have a new question

I have now my materials in the SME. It's great !

But now I wonder how to assign one to an object. How to recognize it as a material, one material can have multiple nodes. How I can choose the Parent node ?

The documentation has no exemples. It's really hard to use it.

Rodman

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Submitted by barigazy on Sat, 2012-09-22 15:51.

I don't know.This is not

I don't know.This is not exposed in mxs.
SME is bed solution for your script,obviously.
Anyway, why do you need this?

bga

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Submitted by Rodman on Sat, 2012-09-22 16:29.

No limitation

I don't want to be limited with the number of slot in meditMaterials[i]

That's why I wanna loop through SME.

Rodman

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Submitted by barigazy on Sat, 2012-09-22 16:38.

For that people store your

For that people store your materials in material library.
That is better solution than SME.Here on scriptspot you can find very cool scipts for that and one of them is http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/smes-super-material-editor-swi...

bga

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Submitted by Rodman on Sat, 2012-09-22 17:06.

I know it. The code can't

I know it. The code can't help to do the job I need.

Rodman

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Submitted by Rodman on Sat, 2012-09-22 16:30.

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Rodman

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