3ds Max - Remove Duplicate materials from Multi-sub object

mawilbolou

Hi guys...

I am working on Max 2012 and am working on quite a big scene.

I have combined a number of models together and sampled the multi-sub material in the Material Editor.

Unfortunately, it seems that Max has generated about 300 different materials, even though I am only using about 20 textures. After looking at some of the materials, I have found that there are alot of duplicate materials that are using one texture.

Is there a script that detects by texture, then deletes the duplicates?

Any help would be massively appreciated..

PS I have tried using the "Clean MultiMaterial Utility"

Cheers

monster

Hey bro, I had this script laying around. If you are only using diffuse maps it might help you.

(
	prevMatCount = scenematerials.count
	diffuseMapList = #()
	materialList = #()

	scenemats = scenematerials


	for m = 1 to scenemats.count do
	(
		dmapFile = scenemats[m].diffuseMap.filename
		getMat = findItem diffuseMapList dmapFile
		
		if getMat == 0 then
		(
			--MATERIAL NOT FOUND, ADD IT TO THE MATERIAL LIST
			append diffuseMapList dmapFile
			append materialList m
		)
		else
		(
			--MATERIAL FOUND, APPLY TO ALL IT'S OBJECTS
			for obj in refs.dependents scenemats[m] do
			(
				try
				(
					obj.material = scenemats[getMat]
				)
				catch()
			)
			
		)
	)
	
	gc lite:true
	
	messageBox ("Materials condensed from " + prevMatCount as string + " material(s) to " + materialList.count as string + " material(s).") title:"Materials"
)

monster

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