Copy Material from one object to another in viewport

Submitted by elirobinson on Wed, 2014-02-26 03:33

I'm looking for a 3ds max script that will allow me to copy an object's material (with a hotkey - don't like new menus and tool bars) and paste it to another object all within the viewport. It would save me a lot of steps having to first open material editor then pick the material then assign to new material. I would love something that did this between instances like CopyPasteObjects.mcr (best script ever :). It would save me so much time.

Attached is an example of what I want to do...to select the object with the mat I need, copy, then switch to different max scene and paste onto new object.

Right now I'm copying and pasting objects which is adding in a lot of unnecessary steps.

Thanks in advance.

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Submitted by DotScott1 on Wed, 2014-06-25 08:21.

To Barigazy: Copy of Material Instead of Instance.

Great job on this script! Just wondering if I can edit the code to paste the exact same material on the other objects instead of a copy of the material as this one does.

What's going on: When I paste the material to another object, it makes a copy of the material instead of pasting the same material. So then I would have to go in and edit each material individually instead of just the one original 1.

Submitted by barigazy on Wed, 2014-06-25 17:32.

...

fn matchPropMaterial = if selection.count != 0 do
(
	if not InstanceMgr.autoMtlPropagation do InstanceMgr.autoMtlPropagation = on
	with redraw off with undo "copy mat" on
	(
		if (mat = selection[1].mat) != null do
		(
			for i = 2 to selection.count where canConvertTo selection[i] Editable_mesh do selection[i].mat = mat
		)
	)
)
matchPropMaterial()

bga

Submitted by DotScott1 on Thu, 2014-06-26 06:12.

Nice!

Thanks! Sorry, didn't quite understand how that one worked at first. Got it now though.

Submitted by barigazy on Thu, 2014-06-26 07:47.

...

Just read the manual (MXS Help Document)

;)

bga

Submitted by fajar on Fri, 2014-02-28 07:15.

look like life thread

look like life thread found....
just a another little gift....

fn matchPropMaterial =
(
 sel= selection as array
 mat2paste=  sel[1].material
 for i=2 to sel.count where (superclassof sel[i] == geometry or superClassOf sel[i] == shape) do 
 (
  with undo "copy mat" on
  (
    sel[i].material = mat2Paste
  )
 )
)

to use : select object that have material [obj A] and then select another object [obj B,C,D......] and then run the script

matchPropMaterial()

Submitted by barigazy on Fri, 2014-02-28 07:24.

;)

fn matchPropMaterial = if selection.count != 0 do
(
	with redraw off with undo "" undo "copy mat" on
	(
		if (mat = selection[1].mat) != null do
		(
			for i = 2 to selection.count where canConvertTo selection[i] Editable_mesh do selection[i].mat = mat
		)
	)
)
matchPropMaterial()