Material Merging Script

shawnolson

I've finished a new tool to composite the materials of selected objects into a single material. I know there are already some tools that do this but for me this process seemed most logical.

Get Material Merger and see docs.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMplDlxWGk8"]Wall Worm Material Merger - YouTube[/ame]

amisima

Thank you for your time and work, Shawn. Very handy script

shawnolson

You're welcome.

I updated it today with a few new features and tweaks:

* Added Open button to open the output directory.
* Updated the Channel spinner to get remembered between sessions.
* Updated file writing to allow for base names with slashes... the output files will get put into subfolders. So if you have a base name of "mymaterials/thisproject/mymaterial1" ... all the bitmaps will get output into the Output Dir plus the base name as extra sub-paths.
* Changed naming of materials. Now the flattened material name will match exactly the Base Name.
* Bitmap nodes now also get the Base Name as the node name.
* Added Shell checkbox. When checked, the Assign Flattened button will preserve the exisitng selections' materials but move them into the original material of a Shell Material. The flattened material is assigned to the shell material's Baked Material slot.

This tool is now integrated into Wall Worm.