Material Manager v2 - Organising Materials in Autodesk Maya
Introducing Material Manager v2, a powerful tool designed to enhance your workflow in Autodesk Maya 3D software. This script revolutionizes the way you manage materials, making it incredibly efficient and user-friendly.
Key Features:
Streamlined Material Management: With Material Manager v2, you can effortlessly search through all your materials with a dynamic search that updates on each keypress. Say goodbye to navigating the cluttered Hypershade and guessing the correct casing with asterisks. Material Manager v2 puts everything at your fingertips."
Saves Automatically: Your organization is automatically saved to the Maya scene. When sharing your project, others can open it and run Material Manager v2 to replicate your layout precisely. This is achieved through a hidden group in the outliner, mirroring your Material Manager layers, ensuring project consistency.
Effortless Organization and Visual Tags: Material Manager v2 simplifies material organization with its built-in tagging system. Easily categorize groups using customizable coloured tags, creating an organized workspace that keeps your assets neat and tidy. To add more coloured tags, simply add them to the attribute array that is at the top of the script.
Quick Assignments: Material assignments are a breeze with this script. In the viewport simply select the mesh you wish to apply the texture to and in the Material Manager Right Click ▶ Assign to Viewport Selection. Saving you time and effort.
Full list of features:
Saves your progress
Dynamic search on keypress
Rename materials
Organise with Groups
Drag and Drop to rearrange
Coloured Tags for Groups (You can add as many custom ones as you like)
Custom selection colour
Hide materials by name (Customisable from an attribute at the top of the script)
Assign selected material to viewport selection
Select all objects with current material
Select all objects from all child materials of a group
Automatically updates material names when renamed outside of the Material Manager (When cursor moves over the Material Manager window)
Name break prevention. All characters such as ($%--%"£ and empty spaces will be replaced with an underscore so nothing breaks.
INSTALLATION:
1. Open your script editor in Maya
2. Create a Python Tab by pressing the + just below the command history list
3. Press Ctrl+A to select the whole script
4. Middle-Mouse Click + Drag the script onto the Custom shelf and you will have a new button which will launch the script. If you Right Click ▶ Edit on the newly created button, you can go to the Shelves tab and play around with the settings setting a name, colours and an icon if you wish.
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