2 New Scripts - GetSelectedMaterial and PhotoshopSelectedMaterial

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Friends,
     Here are 2 new scripts for your enjoyment. I suggest keybinding them to

CTRL-SHIFT-G for GetSelectedMaterial
CTRL-SHIFT-P for PhotoshopSelectedMaterial

GetSelectedMaterial - Takes your current scene selection and automatically loads the material(s) in the material editor for easy editing. It works if you have multiple objects selected and saves your fingers from lots of radio box and scene clicking.

PhotoshopSelectedMaterial - Select an object in your scene and run this script through your keybinding or toolbar button. It will automatically open photoshop and load all the bitmaps assigned to the object!

These scripts will save you time and save you money. Enjoy! These scripts will be updated on ScriptSpot.com as new functionality is added or bugs are fixed. So please search for updates there, and as always please add a point on scriptspot if you find them useful.

Post success stories here (or bugs)!

Update: Max9 compatible!

-Colin

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Holy Crap Colin! These are great! I never thought that these could be so useful! Thanks for sharing!

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EDIT: Works great now! Thanks Colin.

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Sounds great but I’m getting errors on both

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MAXScript MacroScript Error Exception
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-- Type error: Call needs function or class, got: undefined
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OK   
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```with "**objMats = makeUniqueArray objMats**" highlighted on the get materials one and  "**if (hasINISetting iniFile "Photoshop" "Path") then (**" on the photoshop one. 

running Max 9 x64
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Drat! They are for Max 2008+, I am using the AVG Extensions for both of them. I can easily fix them if you need support for 9+

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GetSelectedMaterial has been updated to work with max 9+ (possibly lower as well)

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I completely forgot they added hasINISetting for max2008, I’m updating it now.

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PhotoshopSelectedMaterial

is updated to work with max 9+ (possibly lower as well)

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Great ideas - thanks for sharing them!

b

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Yeah, great idea, these will be very useful time savers, thanks! :slight_smile:

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It is funny how over time we just get used to jumping through the hoops Max presents us with.

These will definitely be useful! Thanks for sharing.

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So right Beestee!

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Thanks dlparisi

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downloading :slight_smile:
havent tried yet but I believe they will be very useful.
thanks so much :slight_smile:

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No prob Giraffe. Let me know how they are and how they could be improved to make life even easier. I figured out what to do with multisub materials on the photoshopSelectedMaterial script, so I’ll implement that soon.

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Fun, I’ve had a photoshop one for a while from Colin Bamber and use it regularly! http://www.colinbamber.com/archives/111#more-111

The get material is useful though, I find myself doing that ‘eyedropper shuffle’ quite often.

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Bah! I didn’t know another Colin wrote the same script! I didn’t know it existed or I would have been using it ;). Excellent!

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fantastico, great stuff.

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if yours let you easily display a list of textures on the selected objects, and allowed you to double click to open whichever specific ones you wanted in photoshop you’d be the clear winner! :slight_smile:

I’ve had a few cases where i accidentally opened up a whole slew of things from a giant multi sub at once when i just wanted the diffuse and spec!

Especially if it combined some of the functionality of the find large bitmaps! (Or find large bitmaps took some of the open with pshop functions!) that would be yay.

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I’m implementing multi-subs soon. What it’ll do is give you a list of materials in the multisub and let you double click the one you want to load in photoshop.

Good idea on the loading photoshop from findLargeBitmaps! I’ll add that in soon.

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this is a bump