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anthonymcgrath

07-02-2003, 10:59 AM

we all know selecting a material in the hypershade, right clicking, then choosing 'select objects with material' will select the faces/objects that are under this shader but how do I do the opposite - ie: select a face/object and make maya select the shader/s in the hypershade that are assigned. its buggin the heck out of me now.

ant
newc
uk

MasonDoran

07-02-2003, 11:12 AM

lol.....its on highend3d....

webster

07-02-2003, 11:14 AM

select the face, go to HyperShade and click on the "little blue sphere with two green Cubes"-icon.

Disantvantage: It will select all Materials assigned to the object, which contains the faces.
But at least you have one of perhaps 5, than one of maybe 100

anthonymcgrath

07-02-2003, 11:27 AM

cheers webster - that seems to help somewhat.

2byts - whats the script on highend3d called?

MasonDoran

07-02-2003, 12:25 PM

hmmm...multimaterial or something...its there, cant really remember

MasonDoran

07-02-2003, 12:31 PM

RMB on the object/component will give you the option to select Material Attributes.....one other way is to select object then hit input/outputs in the hypershade which will give you the shading group....and with this you can find the material pretty fast

magilla

07-03-2003, 12:58 AM

http://www.ant-online.co.uk/Main/Startup.htm

its called showMaterial.mel

--magilla

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