maxscript help - karba can you please take a look at this

Fri Mar 20, 2015 6:42 pm

basically comes down to this
assign diffuse material and adds marble texture to the selected object

$.material = Diffuse_material ()
$.material.diffuse_input_type =2  
$.material.diffuse_tex = Marble_Texture ()

- so you paste it into maxscript listener and press enter

- works only on old octane kernels - like 1.31 - which I have installed now just to see what is going on

- not working on latest kernels

- I have been killing myself for the past few days, looking up and down help files to get a workaround, or anything..
- just gives out error message cannot assign Marble_texture to texturemap, or system exception

if you write it like this

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$.material = diffuse_material diffuse_input_type: 2 diffuse_tex:marble_texture
-- Unable to convert: Marble_texture to type: TextureMap

- just please take a look if you can at the old kernel, and the latest one, and see if there is something different with the texturemap class and octane maps - I've noticed you have a few typos - maybe its just that..

- I know there was a complete overhaul of the system, but this really frustrates me
- I know I could workaround something but I need to implement my own .mat file and extract stuff out of it, but I just want to do it this way - I need to do it this way -

- please give any hint possible, why it worked like this before?

additional info
according to this, everything should fit .. but it just doesn't :

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showclass "diffuse_material.*"
Diffuse_material : material {499252a7,78fd2b6c}
  .diffuse_input_type : integer
  .diffuse_value : float
  .diffuse_color : RGB color
  .diffuse_tex : texturemap
  .roughness_input_type : integer
  .roughness_value : float
  .roughness_color : RGB color
  .roughness_tex : texturemap
  .bump_input_type : integer
  .bump_value : float
  .bump_color : RGB color
  .bump_tex : texturemap
  .normal_input_type : integer
  .normal_value : float
  .normal_color : RGB color
  .normal_tex : texturemap
  .displacement : texturemap
  .opacity_input_type : integer
  .opacity_value : float
  .opacity_color : RGB color
  .opacity_tex : texturemap
  .smooth : boolean
  .edgesRounding : float
  .transmission_input_type : integer
  .transmission_value : float
  .transmission_color : RGB color
  .transmission_tex : texturemap
  .medium : texturemap
  .emission : texturemap
  .matte : boolean
OK
 
showclass "marble_texture.*"
Marble_texture : textureMap {b9212aa,633b78ed}
  .power_input_type : integer
  .power_value : float
  .power_color : RGB color
  .power_tex : texturemap
  .offset_input_type : integer
  .offset_value : float
  .offset_color : RGB color
  .offset_tex : texturemap
  .octaves : integer
  .omega_input_type : integer
  .omega_value : float
  .omega_color : RGB color
  .omega_tex : texturemap
  .variance_input_type : integer
  .variance_value : float
  .variance_color : RGB color
  .variance_tex : texturemap
  .transform : texturemap
  .projection : texturemap
OK