Hi,
I need help in writing a mel that does the following based on a selected object:

pick up a single texture map in its shading network from a designated folder
render a still shot of it,
save that,
choose the next texture map from the same folder and repeat the above
until they are all done.

Can someone help me with that?

I would really appreciate if you could!

Thanks,

Fred

hi
I did this script for you , choose the folder in this first string $folder
put the name of your material in the $material variable
some files in that folder can’t be rendered so it will give you black frames
other renderable files will render properly

regards
Salwan

np :)

Hi,
Now, here is script I have so far:

$folder="/Users/fredeno4/Desktop/Maps";
$material="blinn1";
$texture=`shadingNode -asTexture file`;//create file
connectAttr -force ($texture+".outColor") ($material+".color")// assign the file the the material
$files=`getFileList -folder $folder`;// get all file list in the folder inclode thumbs and everything

for( $i = 0; $i < size( $files ) ; $i++ )

{
$files[$i]=$folder+$files[$i];// get each file full directory and name

setAttr -type “string” ($texture+".fileTextureName") $files[$i];// assign the file to the texture node
renderIntoNewWindow render;// render view
renderWindowMenuCommand keepImageInRenderView renderView;// save the result in images/temp
}

It does create a new texture and connects it to a blinn that I need, but it does not load any of the maps from the “Maps” folder on the desktop. Therefore it renders the object black after 4 passes, and stops. Here is error message it gives:

// Warning: Texture file /Users/fredeno4/Desktop/Mapstwosixth_120cc.tif doesn’t exist, node file1 //
For some reason it looks for the Map which is named “Mapstwosixth_120cc.tif” although it should look for “twosixth_120cc.tif” file in the “Map” folder. ANd after that for the next file in the Map folder, etc.

Can someone help me with that correction?

Thanks,

Fred