Loop over all materials / find material

Submitted by Dariusz on Thu, 2022-06-02 02:25

Hey

What's the best way to get a list of all materials? Assigned/not assigned/scene/non scene/ library etc?

I want to find material by name & assign to geometry.

Regards
Dariusz

‹ edge slice not work Loop over all materials / find material ›

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Submitted by Dariusz on Thu, 2022-06-02 02:38.

Im sorry... the thing just

Im sorry... the thing just posted it 10x lol sorrryyy....

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Submitted by jahman on Thu, 2022-06-02 03:01.

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list all material
as always there's an answer for almost any maxscript related question posted on cgtalk

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Submitted by Dariusz on Thu, 2022-06-02 04:00.

It works WOHOOO!!!! XXXXX

It works WOHOOO!!!! XXXXX

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Submitted by Dariusz on Thu, 2022-06-02 04:06.

Ok it partially works, it did

Ok it partially works, it did not list any materials from loaded libraries :c
Any idea how to fetch them?

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Submitted by jahman on Thu, 2022-06-02 04:45.

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check mxs reference for loadTempMaterialLibrary
I guess you'll have to iterate over library materials to join them to the list

Not sure how can you get all the loaded libraries in SME, but I found that they're listed here:
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsmax\2014 - 64bit\ENU\en-US\defaults\MAX\MtlBrowser.mpl
it is a simple xml config file
unfortunately it doesn't update right after user loads another library, so you'll have to find a workaround

hope it helps

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