Getting the properties of Physical Material's PRESETS

[gwhelden]

All I want to is change the presets programmatically.... I have looked everywhere.  Is it even visible to the API?

Any help would be much appreciated!

-Glen

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Glen Whelden

BIMaire

Autodesk Certified Instructor - 3dsmax 

[Swordslayer · Accepted solution]

They are stored in a .mat file in the materiallibraries folder in max root and loaded from there. You can either use the function that's used internally or adapt it to your needs - you can find it in the stdplugs\stdscripts\meditfunctions.ms file.

meditUtilities.Set_PhysicalTemplate_ActiveMaterial_FromMaterialInMatlib materialToApplyPresetTo "Metal Brushed"

Or use the material from the library directly:

(loadTempMaterialLibrary (getDir #maxRoot + "\materiallibraries\PhysicalMaterialTemplates.mat"))["Metal Brushed"]

[gwhelden]

Thanks!!!