Saving a material preset without maps

Soto

Hi.
Someone knows how to save a material preset that doesn't includes maps info?
I want something that applies only the values without changing maps.

I tried diting the preset file by hand, but I'm getting an error.
Thanks.

Richard Haseltine

It isn't possible with a .dsa preset, without adding new code. I haven't tried very hard with a .duf preset. Which were you using?

Soto

I tried first with duf in a text editor.
Then I tried with dsa inside DAZ Studio, but both attempts gave me an error message.

wancow

Hellboy, is this something you're intending to distribute?

Soto

Eventualy, yes.
But for now I also want to avoid the ctr+double click.

wancow

damn, I never really thought about it before... there really is no way to do this... :( Was just trying myself...

scorpio

Just an idea - if you remove the maps and then save as a material preset will that work

millighost

Hellboy said:

Hi.
Someone knows how to save a material preset that doesn't includes maps info?
I want something that applies only the values without changing maps.

I tried diting the preset file by hand, but I'm getting an error.
Thanks.

You can save it as a "Material Preset". This is like a pose preset, only for material settings. Here is how to remove the diffuse image from it: Open it in your editor and search for the "scene" section. It looks somewhat like this:

"scene" : {
                "materials" : [
                        {
                                "url" : "#Default",
                                "groups" : [ "Default" ]
                        }
                ],
                "animations" : [
                        {
                                "url" : "name://@selection#materials/Default:?diffuse/value",
                                "keys" : [ [ 0, [ 0.9294118, 1, 0.8313725 ] ] ]
                        },
                        {
                                "url" : "name://@selection#materials/Default:?diffuse/image_file",
                                "keys" : [ [ 0, "/C:/users/millighost/My Documents/image/texture/10x10-measure.png" ] ]
                        },
....

The "animations section contains keys for the various parameters. In the example above, the parameter that contains the image is

{
       "url" : "name://@selection#materials/Default:?diffuse/image_file",
       "keys" : [ [ 0, "/C:/users/millighost/My Documents/image/texture/10x10-measure.png" ] ]
},

If you remove it (the 4 lines with the curly braces around it (and the "url" and the "keys" in it), this preset file will not overwrite the diffuse image anymore. For other parameters the procedure is the same. One minor detail to remember: if you remove the very last key in the "animations", you also need to remove the comma at the end of the previous key, otherwise it will give an error.

vwrangler

EDIT: Never mind. Misread the post before mine.