[Closed] Trying to load materials in editor from mat file

For this stage once you have loaded the material library, you have to reference the fact that you are calling from that library. Once you have loaded it, it becomes the current material library, and can be referenced as an array using currentMaterialLibrary

MeditMaterials[1] = currentMaterialLibrary[“Metal Red”]

if you have an array of material names that you want to apply it is very easy to loop through and apply add them to different slots in the material editor

//MatArray is an array containing material names from the current material number, its size must be 24 or less (since there are only 24 material editor slots)
MatArray = #("Metal Red","Metal Green","Metal Yellow","Metal Blue")

for i=1 to MatArray.count do
       (
       MeditMaterials[i] = currentMaterialLibrary[MatArray[i]] 
       )

This sort of code pattern can also be used to reference layers in your scene since they can referenced numerically too!

I think this will all work mate, but I dont have max infront of me to test it!

Let me know how it goes, and post again if you have any more questions.

Good luck!

Rich

Hi there, I have writen some scripts that include some of the stuff you wanted so I’ve picked up all the chunks from those scripts and gather them in one to work like you wanted, here’s the script and you can take a look at the source code to understand it better, feel free to use it and ask any questions, hope it helps

Sorry for the double post but I’ve added a material preview to the script, so you really dont need to pass it over the material editor unless you want to make some changes in the material. I’ve searched for the material preview here in cgtalk and used mostly Bobo’s code so cheers to him for that!