Select material Per-polygon material question

[jimn]

Anyone know how to find out which material is assigned to a selected face? I have a large mesh with different materials assigned to the faces. I'd like to select a face, and then select the material assigned to the face.

Thanks!

• Jim Napier

[glocker]

If this is for a plug-in, you could use either getConnectedSetsAndMembers() or getConnectedShaders() in the MFnMesh class.

If you need MEL, you might be able to use ls -sl with other flags like -mat to get your information.

g

[rstebbing]

//Author: Randy Stebbing
//Date: 4/3/00
//Select a polygon face and run the lines below and it will select all faces that have the same material assignment.
//In addition it will open the attribute editor for the shading group that is assigned to that polygon.

global proc pc()
{
$curFace = ls -sl;
$shadGroup = listSets -type 1 -object $curFace;
select -add $shadGroup;
select -ne -add $shadGroup;
openAEWindow;
}