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
Forum topic · General Scripting
Loop over all materials / find material
By Dariusz · 2022-06-02
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Dariusz · 2022-06-02
Im sorry... the thing just posted it 10x lol sorrryyy....
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jahman · 2022-06-02
list all material
as always there's an answer for almost any maxscript related question posted on cgtalk
Dariusz · 2022-06-02
It works WOHOOO!!!! XXXXX
Dariusz · 2022-06-02
Ok it partially works, it did not list any materials from loaded libraries :c
Any idea how to fetch them?
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jahman · 2022-06-02
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