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miauu's Materials Reducer

By miauu · 2022-10-03

Version
1.2.4
Version requirement
3ds max 2016 - 2026
Other software required
DotNet 4+
Date updated
2025-06-02
Votes
2
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Description

miauu's Materials Reducer allows you to find and replace all identical materials in your scene.

It will compare all accessible parameters and values of the provided materials. What will be ignored are the names of the materials.
You can have a bunch of completely identical materials with different names - miauu's Materials Reducer will find those materials and will allow you to replace the duplicates with only one material.
You can have a bunch of materials with exactly the same name - miauu's Materials Reducer will show you if (and which of) those materials are identical.

Tested materials:

  • all default 3ds max materials.
  • VRay materials
  • Corona materials
  • FStorm materials

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
To find the identical materials all accessible parameters (and their values) of the materials will be checked.
There is a big chance that the tool will not work properly with scripted materials or any other materials which parameters are not accessible.

This is a commercial script. You can find more information here.

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Tags: Material, find, replace, reduce, identical

Comments (7)

miauu · 2025-06-02

miauu's Materials Reducer version 1.2.4 is available.

Changelog:
+NEW: Added support for 3ds Max 2026

simcloud · 2024-05-14

Nice tool, thank you!

miauu's Materials Reducer version 1.2.3 is available.

miauu · 2024-05-11

Changelog:

+ Added support for 3ds max 2025

miauu · 2024-02-17

miauu's Materials Reducer 1.2.2 is available

Changelog:
+ NEW: Slight UI changes

+ Fixed: Error when a material is added to an existing view in the SME

miauu · 2023-04-03

miauu's Materials Reducer version 1.2.01 is available.

Changelog:

+ Added support for 3ds max 2024

miauu · 2023-02-27

miauu's Materials Reducer version 1.2 is available.

Changelog:

+ Fixed
Error when textures have % character in their paths/names
Error when Autodesk Generic materials are used

miauu · 2022-10-31

miauu's Materials Reducer version 1.1 is available.

Changelog:

+ NEW: Show materials in Slate Material Editor or Compact Material Editor via drag and drop or using a right click menu.

+ NEW: Select object(s) with applied source material or applied identical materials