Generate Color Map from existing Material ID's

[Choix]

Hey,

I'd like to process a large amount of meshes out of 3ds Max that have different material ID's assigned to them.

How do I extract those ID's in Substance Designer and assign one color per ID to use that color map later to assign different Substances? Or maybe I don't need the color map at all and can just assign Substances per given Mat ID?

Basically: Mesh with Mat ID's -> color map from Mat ID's -> assign Substances in Substance Designer.

Thanks very much.

[Vincent Gault]

Hey, did you try the multi material blend node?

[Cyrille Damez]

Use the "color map from mesh" baker and change the "color source" parameter to "material color".

[Choix]

Hey, thank you very much!

It worked for now but another question emerged: is there any possible way to always assign one specific color according to what mesh ID was assigned in Max? Like maybe a script or some preset, so that if I have 10 or 100 objects that all have Mat IDs assigned, those colors will stay consistent for each ID?

The use for this would be to always assign e.g. a wood material to ID 1 (red), metal to ID 2 (yellow), [...], fabric to ID 55 (blue) etc.

Best regards!

[Cyrille Damez]

You will be able to change the mesh colors using the Substance Python API in the Substance Automation Toolkit (which should be made available soon for indies).