Rename Group Materials

Hey!

A common workflow for us is to assign materials in softimage with the help of groups. All objects in a group share the same material, which makes material assigning and overriding easy. During the last days I had to select tons of meshes, to group them and to assign a new material to it. Lazy as I am, I have written a script that renames the group material with the groups name. This saves a lot of keyboard write work. Btw, this script works also with partitions – Some people prefer sorting Materials on the top level of SI’s hierarchy.

xsi = Application
collSel = xsi.Selection
log = xsi.LogMessage
for x in range(0,len(collSel)):
	#log(collSel(x).Type)
	oType = str(collSel(x).Type)
	oType2 = oType.replace("#","")
	log(oType2)
	if(oType2 == "Partition") or (oType2 == "Group"):
		log("Group Name: " + str(collSel(x).FullName) + " | Material: " + str(collSel(x).Material))
		if(collSel(x).Material == "None"):
			log("sftools.debug: There is no Material applied to the group")
		else:
			oObject = collSel(x).Name
			oObjectPath = collSel(x).FullName
			oMaterial = collSel(x).Material
			
			oMatLib = collSel(x).Material.Library
			log(oMatLib)
			oMat = oMaterial.Name
			log(oMat)
			xsi.SetValue(str(oMatLib) + "." + str(oMat) + ".Name", str(collSel(x).Name) , "")