Getting all of the bitmapTextures in a certain material?

[Vsai]

Take a look at BSLib in blurscripts, get_maps_from_mat

[MoonDoggie]

Thank you! I'm opening it right now. I hope it's easier than I've been making it out to be.

[Mathieson]

Not sure if you are still looking for a solution for this, but although bitmap textures do not appear when using refs.dependents on a supplied material it does work the other way around: refs.dependents on a bitmap texture will contain any materials it belongs to.

It requires a bit more calculation since it is cycling through all instances of bitmap textures, but this should do the trick.

fn getBitmapsFromMaterial mat =
(
local foundMaps = #()

for x in getClassInstances bitmaptexture do
(
for y in refs.dependents x where y == mat do
(
append foundMaps x
)
)

foundMaps
)

[ZeBoxx2]

also have a peek at the "Material Common Properties, Operators, and Methods" topic near the bottom at the functions added since 3ds Max 6 - there's functions there explicitly for accessing sub-materials and sub-maps of a given material/map only (so no fiddling with properties that never yield a material/map). Looping / traversing these should be pretty simple, and all you have to do is add any found bitmapTexture to an array.

refs.dependents -should- work as well, though? Just check if your material of interest is one of the dependent objects?

[MoonDoggie]

Excellent response! Thanks guys, I'll figure out a solution using the methods you all posted. Thanks again,
Colin

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