assign a material to a polygon with MEL

[wajdyf]

polyPlane -name myplane;
string $myBlinn = `shadingNode -asShader blinn`;
select myplane;
hyperShade -assign $myBlinn;


or if u created the shader beforehand :

polyPlane -name myplane;
select myplane;
hyperShade -assign THENAMEOFYOURSHADER;

[daviddoria]

awesome, thanks - is there a way to do it without using "select"? i mean assign the material directly to an object by name?

Maybe this is not a problem, but I will be calling this from a c++ plugin and I dont know if "select" takes some time or will mess anything up?

Thanks,

Dave

[wajdyf]

polyPlane -name myplane;
hyperShade -assign THENAMEOFYOURSHADER;

WORKS just fine. Since maya automatically selects the newly created entity

[geoff3dnz]

or assign the object to the shading group set:

polyPlane -n "myPlane";

sets -forceElement "myBlinnSG" "myPlane";

//you'll have to check the name of the
//shading group or rename it beforehand.

[sj_bee]

//you'll have to check the name of the
//shading group or rename it beforehand.
like this...
//if $shader is the name of your shader
//and $object is the name of your object

string $shadingGrp[] = `listConnections -type shadingEngine $shader`;

sets -forceElement $shadingGrp[0] $object;

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