eglaubauf / Maya_materialBuildArnold

Builds Materials for Arnold within Maya

A MaterialBuilder Script for Autodesks Maya

NOTE

This plugin will not be updated any further. Feel free to use this code as a base for your development

A MaterialBuilder Script for Autodesks Maya

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Features

• Provides a Materialbuilder for a Principled Shader
• The Function checks if OCIO is enabled and set ColorSpaces accordingly
• creates a tree based on filenames 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 'materialBuildArnold' 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()

Notes:

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