Importing Materials with Existing Name
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When importing objects/components that have materials with the same name as in the SU file you importing to, by default SU will rename the imported material name.
For example i have "Black" material, if i import object with material that has the same name, the name will be changed to "Black1" and I'll have 2 materials.
My question is: Is it possible to import material with existing name and remain it's original name ?
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Not by default, but that might be do-able through Ruby.
When you import materials, where are you importing from?
Chris
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I'm importing from SU files. I often need objects/components from my older projects (SU files), so i import them.
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You can't force existing Materials to be adopted on Import... However there are several scripts out there - like my GlobalMaterialChanger - that let you pick a Material and swap it with another. So in your example, Material_to_go = 'Black1', Material_to_add = 'Black'. After running it nothing will have Material 'Black1'. Then Purge Materials and Black1 will disappear...
This way only works one Material-swap at a time... BUT you could rewrite it to find 'families' of Materials - e.g. Black, Black1, Black2, Black3 etc and make them all into the original 'Black' ?
Using my additional method
material.deleteyou could also purge each now_unused_material as you go... -
Thank you very much TIG. Although it doesn't do 100% of what i wanted, It's a lot better than manually reapply materials.
Regarding the rewriting the plugin, I wouldn't know a thing about it. I will very much appreciate if you could do it (I'm sure others will benefit from it as well)
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