Animation, 3D scripts and tools, stuff and nonsense

Quick script for nAngus – this will import the material library from a referenced model and change the object assignments from the referenced to the local. Saves importing the refModel completely.

'''
localiseMatLib

Usage: select a referenced matLib. A (local) duplicate will be created and 
objects assigned to these new materials

'''

app = Application

print '##########################'
shaderColl = {}
sel = app.Selection
for x in sel:
	if x.Type == 'library_source':
		# is locked by refmodel?
		if x.lockType == 3:
			matLibName = x.FullName
			print 'Matlib:', matLibName
			for mem in x.items:
				print mem.name
				usedBy = mem.UsedBy
				
				itemList = []
				for obj in usedBy:
					itemList.append(obj.fullName)

				shaderColl[str(mem.name)] = itemList
			print 'shaderColl', shaderColl
			
			# copy the material library
			newMatLib = app.Duplicate(x)
			print newMatLib
			
			# assign objects to the new matlib
			for mem in x.items:
				objectList = shaderColl[str(mem.name)]
				newMatName = mem.FullName.replace(matLibName, str(newMatLib))
				print 'newMatName', newMatName
				for obj in objectList:
					print newMatName, obj
					Application.SIAssignMaterial( obj, newMatName)
		else:
			print 'Pick a matlib that is referenced'

There was a follow up to an old discussion on the Softimage mailing list concerning transferring particle instance orders from Soft into Maya. I thought I’d document what I said earlier.
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A small update to cgBreakdown. Will now update params on refmodels, which tend to report themselves as locked. Thanks to Alex Kong for the heads up.

Small update: 1.32 ignores locked parameters. Read more

Fixed a bug in cgBreakDown – it now ignores fcurves with no keys (very practical idea, thanks SoftImage). This previously caused the script to error out. Grab it on the cgBreakDown page.

http://www.autodesk.com/softimage

It’s hard to imagine how this is a good thing…

Thanks to Roman Kobryn over at AnimationMentor, who requested such an abomination of nature, cgBreakdown now does overshoots. There’s a new tab in the interface, so you can now send your character’s limbs in all sorts of directions at the same time!!!

Grab it on the cgBreakdown page

cgBreakdown and cgNukeIO are back online – get ’em in the 3dTools section.