Looking for a report

genma saotome

I have a need to review all the materials used in all of the components. It would be better if the primary sort is by materials but I can make do if the sort is by component instead as what matters most is that it is complete and accurate. It would be ideal if "front face not textured" is there too.

I would appreciate any suggestions on where I might find a solution that address this need.

genma saotome

Actually, I can narrow things down quite a bit... this code:

def GetHighlightFaces(entities, untextured)

  count=0

  entities.each do |ent|

    case ent.typename

    when "ComponentInstance"
      count+=GetHighlightFaces(ent.definition.entities, untextured)

    when "Group"
      count+=GetHighlightFaces(ent.entities, untextured)

    when "Face"
      if not (ent.material and ent.material.texture and ent.material.texture.filename)  and not (ent.back_material and ent.back_material.texture and ent.back_material.texture.filename)
	ent.material=untextured
	#ent.back_material=reverse
	count+=1
      #else
	#ent.material=reverse if not (ent.material and ent.material.texture and ent.material.texture.filename)
	#ent.back_material=reverse if not (ent.back_material and ent.back_material.texture and ent.back_material.texture.filename)
      end

    end
  end

  return count

end

finds any face taht has not been textured and paints it red. If these faces happen to be part of any component, I need to know it's name so I can get in there and either texture the face or delete it. NOT being a ruby programmer, I have no idea how this code could be tweeked to tell me the component name. If someone knows how to do that and would share the code, I'll edit this file and test it.

Thanks!

Dan Rathbun

Just noting that you are asking for 2 separate things... the 1st post asks about an "in view report",... the 2nd asks about a tool that would modify model entities.

I would think that there is already likely to be a plugin, that conditionally applies materials to drawing elements.

Dan Rathbun

@genma saotome said:

If these faces happen to be part of any component, I need to know it's name so I can get in there and either texture the face or delete it.

Normally for components and groups that will have ALL of their faces textured the same, you do not individually texture them. Instead you leave them with the default material (ie, nil,) and apply the material to the parent object, and all it's faces with default nil material will be textured.)

If you need to apply a different material (other than the component's default,) to specific faces, you then overrride the default only for those certain faces.

So... when you examine a face's material (that is within a group or component,) and it is nil (which in Ruby evals to false,) you must check it's parent to see if there is a material applied, in order to say whether or not it will be textured.

Seems like you are trying to do things the hard way.

genma saotome

@dan rathbun said:

Seems like you are trying to do things the hard way.

Nope. I'm doing things "The Game Way". EXPORT the fewest polys, fewest textures, no textures on backfaces, no polys w/o textures. As minimal as possible... applying a texture to a component puts that texture on the backface -- I can't allow that.

The code I showed, above, was what I use to identify and color untextured polys bright red (written by someone else). If they're big enough, I'll see them and either delete the poly or texture it correctly. 99 out of 100 times, I delete the poly. I need either a report OR a modification of the code I posted, whichever will get me a display/listing of all component/texture assignments. With the information in hand I can go right to the specific component definition and find the problem. W/O it's an ordeal.