Coloring Animated Scenes

[meliss521]

Hello I'm working on a project and I'm coming into a problem. This is the situation, I have a many different scenes (around 30) that have character and camera animation. These scenes have no textures at all. I have the individual files from the of the characters that were used in the amination in their perspective T poses. So what I did with them, instead of laying out UV's and working in photoshop, I used the hypershade and dragged blinns and lamberts on to different geomentry in the scene and changed the colors. I also highlight faces and painted faces and the original files look great this way. So no I'm having a problem getting those textures on to the character that already have animation on them. Do anyone have any ideas. I did not do this in photoshop and it's driving me nuts. To give you an idea of what I'm doing here is a picture example of what I'm trying to do using a box.

I was able to duplicate the box that I assignned material to the faces and it worked, but how to I transfer that color to the other box? I did try exporting the character and importing it into the scene, but it does not update the textures that I created. Please any help would be awesome.

[joojaa]

I fail to see the problem, why dont you just assign them directly to the animated objects? But if the objects are exactly the same and have exactly the same topology you coudl use this:

CODE
{//transfer object shader assignments to other
  string $objs[]=ls -sl -dag -shapes;
  string $xforms[]=ls -sl;

  string $shaders[]=stringArrayRemoveDuplicates(ls("-et","shadingEngine",listConnections -d 1 ($objs[0]+".instObjGroups.objectGroups")));

  for ($shader in $shaders){
    string $set[]=ls("-et","float3",sets -q $shader,$xforms[0] );
    string $temp=rename $xforms[0] ($xforms[0]+"tmp");
    rename $xforms[1] $xforms[0];
    sets -e -forceElement $shader $set;
    rename $xforms[0] $xforms[1];
    rename $temp $xforms[0];
  }
}

Select object to trasfer from then one to transfer to.

[meliss521]

Thank you, It seemed to work. My program was acting a little buggy with it. On 8.5. Also is there a way to transfer this to mulitple objects instead of doing individual objects?

[joojaa]

Well yes it could be changed to use alternating patterns.