eglaubauf/maya_materialbuildredshift

Builds Materials for Redshift in Maya

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

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.