How to handle group nodes ?

[JHN]

One way to do it is:

max select none
i = 1
for o in objects where isGroupHead o do
(
select o
selection.material = meditMaterials[i]
i += 1
)


This example will assign materials from the material editor (i is the slot number), going beyond 24 groups will be a problem, since there are only 24 slots. It's just an example on how you could do it.

Hope it helps,
-Johan

[bkravi]

Hi JHN, your method works but I want to do the same thing without selecting them,

just to be clear about what i want - I want to go through all my groups and assign each group diffrent material , if there is group inside of another group (Nested group) then I want outer group and inner group to have diffrent material.

I hope someone must have idea about this.

[ZeBoxx2]

something a la this, then?


for o in objects where (isGroupHead o) do (
newMat = Standard diffuse:(random (color 96 96 96) (color 255 255 255))
for c in o.children do ( c.material = newMat )
)

[bkravi]

Thanks Zeeboxx2 it works fine, I was thinking of using isgroupMember function but by using .children is more quick and recognise the head group node of its family.

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