Re: Finding all materials using a sprite shader through scripting.

[Julian Johnson <julian(at)exch.demon.co.uk>]

Hi Dan,

Provided all your Sprite nodes begin with "Sprite..." then this might be 
a simple starting point....but I'm sure there's a more elegant way of 
selecting the nodes by Class/GUI ID instead of by Text strings...

Python:

from win32com.client import constants as c
spriteColl = XSIFactory.CreateObject('XSI.Collection')

scn = Application.ActiveProject.ActiveScene
matlibs = scn.MaterialLibraries
Application.LogMessage( "There are " + str(matlibs.Count) + " libraries 
under the scene." )
for currlib in matlibs :
   Application.LogMessage( currlib.Name + " has " + str(matlibs.Count) 
+ " defined materials." )

   for currmat in currlib.Items :
       Application.LogMessage( "  - " + currmat.Name )
       for x in currmat.FindShaders(c.siShaderFilter):
           if x.Name[:6] == 'Sprite':
               Application.LogMessage(str(x)+' is a sprite shader')
               spriteColl.AddItems(currmat.UsedBy)

Application.SelectObj(spriteColl)

Julian






Dan Yargici wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a fairly large shot that has been a decent number of objects 
> using the sprite shader in their materials.  I'd like to find all the 
> objects using any materials that contain the sprite shader.
>
> Now, I'm not too bad with basic scripting, but as soon as the 
> rendertree is involved I fall flat on my arse.  Could anyone point me 
> in the right direction?
>
> If not, it's not the end of the world, it would probably take me about 
> 10 minutes to do by hand.  I was just curious...
>
> Thanks.
>
> DAN.

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