topic Re: Hotkey for Assign material? in Maya Modeling Forum

Hotkey for Assign material?

JacksonLamme — Fri, 20 May 2022 17:22:13 GMT

I have hundreds of materials in my scene and rightclicking then going to arnold and shimmying down to AIsurface takes too long. Is there a faster way?

Many thanks

Re: Hotkey for Assign material?

Kahylan — Sat, 21 May 2022 12:08:50 GMT

Hi!

I'm not quite sure, are we talking about new materials or existing materials?

if it is just a question of creating new materials, you can use a script like this one to do so:

import maya.cmds as mc sel = mc.ls(sl = True) for s in sel: mat = mc.createNode("aiStandardSurface", n = "{0}_material".format(s)) sg = mc.createNode("shadingEngine", n="{0}_SG".format(s)) mc.connectAttr("{0}.outColor".format(mat), "{0}.surfaceShader".format(sg)) shape = mc.listRelatives(s, s= True)[0] attr = mc.listConnections("{0}.instObjGroups[0]".format(shape), p = True)[0] mc.disconnectAttr("{0}.instObjGroups[0]".format(shape),attr) mc.connectAttr("{0}.instObjGroups[0]".format(shape),"{0}.dagSetMembers[0]".format(sg))

If you need to connect the right existing materials with their geometric counterparts, it is going to be harder, because you would need very strict consistent naming conventions to write a script that does that.

I hope this helps!

Re: Hotkey for Assign material?

JacksonLamme — Thu, 26 May 2022 12:55:59 GMT

Thank you! I'm not sure what that does, does in make control or s the hotkey? What about just a new AIstandard surface?

Re: Hotkey for Assign material?

damaggio — Thu, 26 May 2022 13:32:17 GMT

I agree with Kahylan, your question is hard to understand Jackson. Maybe you can gives a better description.

Re: Hotkey for Assign material?

JacksonLamme — Thu, 26 May 2022 19:51:05 GMT

I only usually create ai standard surface, but I have to click 3 times and find it in a long list every time, when I would prefer to just default to having an ai standard surface on my materials. I've searched for this for quite a while and not so cut and dry

Re: Hotkey for Assign material?

Kahylan — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:01:10 GMT

If that is what you want then I understood you correctly, you can just create a hotkey that runs the script that I posted above using the hotkey editor. This should give you the result you want.

Here's a tutorial on creating and assigning custom hotkeys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xhnnao6AXY