I need to assign one shader to many objects so that I can adjust all objects in the same shader but each object must receive a different random shader.  How can I do this in maya?

Is there a way of assigning `rand 1 100` to a variable in a file texture so that each time a shader assigns a unique texture to an object?

Is there a way of overriding the file texture assigned by a shader by connecting a file node to an object?

Thanks for your thoughts,
David O

Thanks for the reply

Something like this:
http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2009/...singleswitchmel/#more-150

May work but I was hoping for something a little more simple.  Shouldn’t it be as simple as replacing a number in the file texture with a # that gets assigned by an id number on the object?  Is there not a way of doing this in maya?

I would like to assign the texture name to something like this:
${FILENAME}.${FILENUMBER}.${EXT}
Is this possible within maya?