split elements by material

[Chad Warner]

I've got several editable polys imported from sketchup into MAx 2010 that has multiple materials applied to it, that I'd like to be able to split up by material (Not necessarily MatID, because the object may have 3 ID's that are all one material). Is there an easy way to do this?

 

Thanks,

 

Chad

[Chad Warner]

Nevermind, found a script on scriptspot:http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/detach-by-material-id

 

I wasn't using the right keywords before so nothing came up.

[Dave Buchhofer]

I use that one a lot.. it has a couple bugs though,

 

run it on a not too huge set of objects (say, under 2000) or it can run out of ram and crash/lockup

 

the delete objects thing doesn't actually delete the host objects in most cases, so i run a second script after to delete empty meshes

 

	sel = selection as array
	for obj in sel do 
		if (obj.numfaces == 0) do delete obj 

 

sometimes it skips objects? So i just run it a couple times.

 

anyway!! script comes in handy, if you're feeling annoyed at multisubs with the new slate material jam like I am.