How to assign Octane3dsmax Maps via Maxscript

[akira]

Hi Mr.Karba, i'm trying to make my own material converter but was stuck at texture assignment:

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$.material = diffuse_material()
Diffuse_Material:Diffuse_Material
$.material.diffuse_tex = alpha_image ()
** system exception **
$.material.diffuse_tex = copy alpha_image ()
-- Unable to convert: Alpha_Image to type: TextureMap

can you tell me if it's possible to do that?

Regards,

akira.

[acc24ex]

this is where I got stuck and couldn't find any way of working it out - if you assign any texture node to the shader node via maxscript gives out a system exception error.. this did work on the previous versions like octane 1.2
- also Karba mentioned somewhere that he doesn't do maxscript..

[akira]

So sad to hear that, the built in converter usually assign a rgb image to the opacity slot instead of an alpha image or greyscale image,
Without maxscript automation, I have to manually correct them one by one, sigh.

[HHbomb]

+1 more access and docs for maxscript.

[Jari]

I got same issue! I can only switch texture map if I first manually add texture map from material editor. Before that that .diffuse_tex is undefined and I have no idea how to change that with maxscript.

[Karba]

Hi Mr.Karba, i'm trying to make my own material converter but was stuck at texture assignment:

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$.material = diffuse_material()
Diffuse_Material:Diffuse_Material
$.material.diffuse_tex = alpha_image ()
** system exception **
$.material.diffuse_tex = copy alpha_image ()
-- Unable to convert: Alpha_Image to type: TextureMap

can you tell me if it's possible to do that?

Regards,

akira.

Did you try to change diffuse_input_type first?
0 - float value
1 - color
2 - texture

[Jari]

Yes I did. Could you tell me how your material LiveDB makes the trick when you press "place to active slot of material editor"?

[Karba]

Yes I did. Could you tell me how your material LiveDB makes the trick when you press "place to active slot of material editor"?

it is c++ code, no script

[akira]

Hi Mr.Karba, i'm trying to make my own material converter but was stuck at texture assignment:

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$.material = diffuse_material()
Diffuse_Material:Diffuse_Material
$.material.diffuse_tex = alpha_image ()
** system exception **
$.material.diffuse_tex = copy alpha_image ()
-- Unable to convert: Alpha_Image to type: TextureMap

can you tell me if it's possible to do that?

Regards,

akira.

Did you try to change diffuse_input_type first?
0 - float value
1 - color
2 - texture

yes, i did, and still got the same error.
as you can see the error message said that the Alpha_Image(or RGB_Image) is not the same type as TextureMap.

[acc24ex]

I was looking far all options for hours and tried all workarounds I could think of, frustration set in so I gave up

.. something changed from octane version 1.0 or something and after 1.5 it gave out errors, I have a feeling something in the plugin is maybe differently named, or placed under a different class or something, and only gives out this error on maxscript when trying to some assign texturemap

- maybe rgbimage noise etc aren't of the class texturemap, maybe it's named texturemap2 or something like that and it works out fine in the plugin but not here