change multiple materials in maya

fade1

is there are way to change all materials in maya to a certain material type, i.e. lambert. i know i can do this with values in the component editor, but haven't found a way for materials.
thanks in advance.(and no, i'm not good with mel, so a easier way would be nice. )

pliang

Try looking in highend3d.com...I found a MEL utility that could convert texture nodes and relink the files as well as converting them.

Jeremy Lindstrom

You can select all the objects in your scene and just apply a lambert...

fade1

of course i don't want to assign fresh materials, but keep the texture assignments as they were.
the only script i found and goes in the right direction does not work with my maya 7. maybe the code is outdated. last update was 1999..
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/rendering/misc/243.html