Maxscript help

[squeakybadger]

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to set all materials for an object to have the same materialID?

I've been using $.material.effectsChannel = 5 etc, but this only works on single materials, not multi/subs.


Thanks for any pointers!

[squeakybadger]

This seems to work and sets the MultiSub and its child materials to effectID 7

            for MatID in selection do 
            (

                if classof MatID.material == MultiMaterial then
                (
                    MatID.material.effectsChannel = 7
                        for MatNum = 1 to MatID.material.materialList.count do 
                            MatID.material.materialList[MatNum].effectsChannel = 7
                )    
            )

But throws up this error in the listener (which breaks the script after it has run)

-- Error occurred in anonymous codeblock; filename: ; position: 248; line: 8
-- Unknown property: "effectsChannel" in undefined

If I change out the MatID.material.materialList[MatNum] to read as the actual material number ie: [5], then I don't get the error.

Any ideas?

[Codi]

This should set the effects channel for materials and multimaterials:

fn setMaterialChannel m c = (
    if m != undefined do m.effectsChannel = c
    if classOf m == MultiMaterial do (
        for s in m.materialList do setMaterialChannel s c
    )
)

for o in selection do (
    setMaterialChannel o.material 5
)