Delete a material that's being used (using Ruby)

fizgig

Any way to do this?

thomthom

there isn't any mathods to delete materials. the workaround is to create temprary geoemtry and apply all others materials to it, then purge materials. But you must also make sure that the material you want to purge isn't the current one.

MartinRinehart

No. (I say that with no confidence. Never say never.)

If you paint a face with a color that's not in Materials, it's still not in Materials and you are not far from Bug Splat. I've not traced this to some particular combination, but it's regular, if not repeatable.

TIG

I have written a material.delete additional method... ThomThom helped - memory loss ?

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=166978#p166978

It will erase a material - if it's current it 'defaults' objects with that material...

tridem

@thomthom said:

there isn't any mathods to delete materials. the workaround is to create temprary geoemtry and apply all others materials to it, then purge materials. But you must also make sure that the material you want to purge isn't the current one.

maybe i'm misunderstanding, but although I don't have any dedicated ruby-script, by right click on the material I can delete and replace with the default one

TIG

@tridem said:

@thomthom said:

there isn't any mathods to delete materials. the workaround is to create temprary geoemtry and apply all others materials to it, then purge materials. But you must also make sure that the material you want to purge isn't the current one.

maybe i'm misunderstanding, but although I don't have any dedicated ruby-script, by right click on the material I can delete and replace with the default one

You CAN easily do it manually - but to do it within a script is not available in the current API - hence my additional method material.delete which mimics that manual operation...

tridem

@tig said:

.. but to do it within a script ..

doh! .. actualy for me it's time to go to sleep