Custom Script Maya help - Mel/Python

Noth

I'm increasingly finding situations where it would be benefitical to pick up mel or python. I need some help with something, and hopefully I can study it.

I have a few hundred objects correctly named in Maya. I need them all to have their own duplicant of the shader network, with with a name that matches the object's. An added suffix of _SHDR.

On an instance by instance basis, I guess it would look something like list objects, select object, duplicate shader, rename new shader based on object name + suffix, select object, assign shader.

Any help would be helpful! Else I'm doing this by hand >< Thanks!

heyeye

If I'm understanding you correctly....
https://cgmichael.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/batch-rename-or-how-to-append-postfixes-to-the-names-in-maya/

Noth

@Heyeye Thanks for the reply! I'm well aware of that feature. It's a small part of what I need done. Thanks anyway bro.

Pac_187

Select your nodes. Make sure they already have the material to be duplicated assigned. Run the script (as Python).

import pymel.core as pm<br><br>nodes = pm.selected()<br>suffix = '_SHDR'<br><br>for node in nodes:<br>    pm.select(node)<br>    pm.hyperShade(shaderNetworksSelectMaterialNodes=True)<br>    mat = pm.selected()[0]  # we take for granted that the node has only one material assigned!<br>    clone = pm.duplicate(mat, name=node.name() + suffix, upstreamNodes=True)[0]  # duplicate the whole shading graph<br>    pm.select(node)<br>    pm.hyperShade(assign=clone)<br><br>