/Maya_materialBuildRedshift

Builds Materials for Redshift in Maya

Primary LanguagePython

A MaterialBuilder Script for Redshift in Autodesks Maya

Development stopped

This plugin will not be developed any further. Feel free to use the code for your purpose.

Features

  • Provides a Materialbuilder for a Redhshift Material
  • The Function checks if OCIO is enabled and set ColorSpaces accordingly
  • creates a tree based on Filnames and works best with strings provided by Substance
    • base_color or basecolor
    • roughness
    • normal
    • metallic
    • reflect
    • height
    • displace
    • bump
  • The strings to look for can easily be changed at the bottom of each script
  • A shelf is provided in the shelves folder

Example Node tree for MaterialBuilder

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Installation:

  1. Create a new Folder called 'materialBuildRedshift' at this location: C:\Users<User>\Documents\maya\2019\scripts
  2. Copy the content from the provided scripts folder into the newly created folder
  3. To access the shelf copy the file shelf_MaterialBuildArnold.mel to your shelves directory (C:\Users<user>\Documents\maya\2019\prefs\shelves)
  4. Optionally you can create your shelf yourself via the following python-command:
import materialBuildArnold.materialBuildArnold as mb
reload(mb)
mb.open()

TODO:

  • tx conversion
  • checkboxes for user
  • better configuration for searched names

Notes:

All of the scripts are free of charge for free use, commercial or non commercial whatsoever. But this scripts may brake your workflow.