randomize material id

[ene.xis]

anyone knows a script?
i ve got an object with alot of faces wich i want to aply 4 diferent materials in a random order....anyone?

[Frances]

Hi,

If each face is an element, you can use the MaterialByElement modifier.

[ene.xis]

thanks Frances....will try!

[studioDIM]

Re: randomize material id

anyone knows a script?
i ve got an object with alot of faces wich i want to aply 4 diferent materials in a random order....anyone?

with the object selected run this:

for i=1 to $.mesh.numfaces do  setfacematid $.mesh i (random 1 4)

As long as the object is an editable mesh this will work the treat.
For editable poly objects it's slightly different in practice, but the concept does not change.

Hope it helps

Lele

[ene.xis]

thank u lele!
i got away with frances modifier already...
thanx anyway!

[Clifton Santiago]

Also the Blur studios script pack has a script that does exactly this.

[jacksc02]

the blurscript is called select random faces.
very handy tool indeed

[jonnybefree]

is there even a possibility with this script for select every 2nd or 3rd face?

[studioDIM]

For Blur's script, i wouldn't know

For that one line script up there, it can surely be done (add a "by 2" to the for cycle, and that's done), even though it sounds odd as a method (accessing POLYS is a different thing: faces are only triangular.).

One handy thing might be that the user selects a set of faces, and to those it applies random mat ids.

Also, it should be expanded to check for what's selected: a mesh and a poly object work in fairly different ways, and have different methods that apply to the classes.

But that's prolly another couple of lines of scripting, and i'm a tad busy at the moment, so i'd skip it for now...

Lele

[jacksc02]

i was waiting for an answer from you lele

[DaForce]

things like polyboost and orion flame have stuff just like that. Plus alot of other cool features.

But hey.. you got what you wanted

[studioDIM]

Spot on, daforce!
i was watching orionflame's videos just a couple of days ago...

now, THAT is scripting
I so want one :P

Lele

[jonnybefree]

thanks lele, but when i see no matter what, that includes the word "script", my brain totaly shuts down.
i've tried it, but........

orion flame i don't know, but its right polyboost is great!
its a while ago now, i think i have to try it out

where did you find the orionflame videos?

[DaForce]

Lele,

Yeah amazing hey.
You seen the polyboost videos?
The topology buttons are wicked.. not that usefull but fun to play with

jonnybefree,
Try the polyboost demo

[studioDIM]

yeah, impressive.

I haven't tried it, but i am extremely curious to see how it works on bad topology objects (autocad models, anyone?), as from my experience what he does with select every nth poly, select interior, select border and so on can be done with a very regular mesh (loops and rings at their proper places) in a fairly straightforward way.
I wonder if it works in limit cases, and if it does, boy what algorithms that chap threw at it!

I'll go fetch the demo

Lele