Mass Change All Materials' Map Channel???

[Tim in Hollywood]

Hi all,

 

Is there a way to change the "Map Channel" in ALL scene materials? I have to change the map channel for every material in a scene from 3 to 1. Because I have dozens of materials and dozens of files, this would be painstaking to do manually.

 

Seems that a script for this may already exist. If it does, I have been unable to find it.

 

Any help will be appreciated!

 

Thanks,

Tim

[NoisyMonk]

Create a new MaxScript and paste the following and run the script:

 

for obj in geometry do

(

obj.modifiers[#unwrap_uvw].unwrap.setMapChannel 1

)

 

Probably not the most efficient script, but it should work.

 

 

Edit: Sorry, read your post wrong and didn't realize that you wanted to change the Material's Map Channel, and not your Objects, I'll work on that script now and update when I get it.

[-MerlyN-]

Only that this changes the objects, not the materials, no?

[NoisyMonk]

Yeah, noticed that just after I posted. Working on fixing it, but I'm having trouble finding the Map Channel property in the Materials. I'm a pretty novice scripter, so it may take me a while. >_

[-MerlyN-]

well, once you've found it, let me know. I need a script, that lets me change the crop values of bitmaps in a multi-sub-material...

[Tim in Hollywood]

Hi,

 

Thank you for your efforts with this. We have found a solution to solve the original problem.

 

- Tim

[cgrant3d]

In case anyone finds this via search the solution is here - http://www.scriptspot.com/forums/3ds-max/scripts-wanted/uvw-map-channel-script-needed