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Material Works script – Search & Replace materials, and more

Kernon ·

ss.jpgHere’s a great time-saving tool created by Vaclav Chaloupka. It’s been created to allow fast searching of materials in a scene with the ability to easily replace them with another material. But, that’s not all it can do.

Here’s a listing of its features:

  • Search for a material in all objects and replaces it with another material.
  • NEW! Reduce the script to all/visible/selected objects.
  • Rename materials in a list of all materials – no need to go the the object.
  • Show who is using the material.
  • Calculate the sum of surface areas using material. NEW! – calculating real (scaled) object area.
  • NEW! Assign material to selected faces or objects.

Vaclav writes:

…[my Blender] project was becoming quite messy, with multiple copies of same material with different names. Changes sometimes did not apply to all intended objects. Then I started to create multiple scenes, made some meshes single-user, and I’ve got even more copies of material.

I’ve spent some time going to each object, scanning through the material index and changing it manually – the OOPS spaghetti did not help much. I thought there must be a better way – Python, but I could not find a script that would do that – so I wrote one…

You can get more details on his webpage.

Author Kernon
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