Hi, I have no experience at all with maxscript. I need to do a lot similar actions to objects in multiple scenes. I believe maxscritp could help to simplify the process. This is what I want to do with one button click, after I select several objects manually: - add an edit mesh modifier to the se…

myMat = VrayMtl() myMat.name = "brushed alu" for a in $ do ( addModifier a (Edit_Mesh()) addModifier a (Uvwmap maptype:0 width:250 length:2500) a.castShadows = false a.receiveshadows = false a.material = myMat a.ishidden = true ) This should do the trick, it has no error checking in so wil…

Thank you!! Works except for the material part, but I left that out for now and doing that manually. Cheers, wouter

What doesn’t work about the “material part”? I owe you for all the free aversis hdri’s you’ve given away :wink: let us know if you need anything else. :slight_smile:

Well it assigns a material with the correct name, but it should assign a material with that name already present in the mat editor (not yet assigned to any other object). Glad you like the hdri’s :smile:

Sorry I did not realise you were after an already existing material. This update will find and apply a material editor material called “brushed alu”. ( myMat = VrayMtl() myMat.name = "Alu_NotFound" for m in meditMaterials do ( if m.name == "brushed alu" do ( myMat = m exit ) )…

Thanks a lot for all your help! But the material part still won’t work. Maybe it has something to do that it is a vraymtlwrapper material? Or I maybe did something wrong putting the code on a button? This is how it looks on my button, I tried to change VrayMtl into MtlWrapper and also changed the n…

No worries at all, sorry it is not working yet. At the moment the script will look through all of the slots of the material editor and try and find a material by the name “brushed alu”. If it cannot find it, it applies a default VRayMtl called “Alu_NotFound”. I think the problem is that it is looki…

Hi, No I’m not loading from an external library. The material just sits in the material editor of the file. Attached is a screenshot (in this file, the material is already applied). Normally before running the script, the material also sits in the mat editor but is not yet assigned to any object. T…

Mmm, I am not too sure what is going on then. I have tested it here and it works fine (Max 2011). I suspect it is most likely to either be a typo in material name or something to do with the button creation process. You could try and save the following script as a .ms file and then go to MAXScript->R…

Hi, flipside please try this: global aMatDialog try(destroyDialog aMatDialog)catch() ( rollout aMatDialog "Assign a Material" width:200 height:30 ( button btnAssign "Assign" fn FindMaterial mO = ( for m in meditMaterials do ( if (classof m == VRayMtlWrapper) and (m.…

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What doesn’t work about the “material part”? I owe you for all the free aversis hdri’s you’ve given away let us know if you need anything else.

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