Assign automatically hundred of bitmaps to hundred of materials
Hi!
I'm building a Material Library for trees and plants in 3ds max.
What I'm doing is to put manually a bitmap into the diffuse and opacity channel of the material.
Well, I've a lot of bitmap and a lot of materials to create, so this procedure it's quite long and tedious, I'd like to know if it could be done automatically,
I don't know, maybe a sort of script that point to a folder with textures named in this way: diffuse01.jpg, diffuse02.jpg... and when I click "Start" it creates a series of materials caleed Mat01 Mat02.. and it applies automatically diffuse01.jpg to the first and so on.. and using a cycle "for" I can decide the number of materials.
Thank you for any kind of help.
I hope someone else has had the same issue :) (and has solved it)
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You're in luck. Jonah had a
You're in luck. Jonah had a similar problem a few months back on cgtalk - here's the link to the thread / code (jump to last page for most recent code) ...
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=98&t=656374&page=1&pp=15&hi...
You might also be interested in Nir Sullam's script "Billboard Generator" http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/billboard-generator which helps create / reuse a library of textures on billboard objects
Alternatively, once you have the objects created and just need them to face the camera, a search for "billboard" brings up several useful results:
Billboard Manager - http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/billboard-manager
Multi-Assign Scripted Billboard Controller - http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/multi-assign-scripted-billboard-contro...
Billboard-O-Matic - http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/billboard-o-matic
Good luck!
Chris