Hello guys, I’m fiddling with MaxScript and needed to write one that assigned a unique MatID to every object selected. If I select 15 Objects it would assign a MatID from 1 to 15 to each one of them so every object would end up having a unique MatID.
I’ve come up with this, which runs terribly slow! Please take lightly on me!
(a = selection as array
for i=1 to selection.count do
(
select a[i]
subobjectLevel = 5
max select all
$.EditablePoly.setMaterialIndex i 1
max select none
subobjectLevel = 0
)
)
I was thinking about making another one that would just add a Material Modifier with a unique ID to each object and then collapse the stack – is this a better idea?
Cheers and thanks a lot!
all that selecting and de-selecting makes it slow.
(
a = selection as array
for i=1 to selection.count do polyop.setFaceMatID a[i] #all i
)
Better if it checks whether the objects are editable polys.
(
a = selection as array
for i=1 to selection.count where isKindOf a[i] editable_Poly do polyop.setFaceMatID a[i] #all i
)
how about something like
id = 1;
for i in $selection do
(
addModifier i (materialModifier materialID:id)
id += 1
)
Great! Thank you very much Raytracer and Claude! Everything works much faster now! Got loads of scripting to learn!!