Hi, sorry, I was too tired\sleepy and frustrated at the time - no wonder considering the actual time when I wrote that post and probably explained that behaviour too vaguely.
The CMLC is not crashing\freezing max in itself it's just that when that function is used without selection\restriction to just needed ones (accidentally or intentionally) on such a heavy scene as I described, when let's say more than 1k different textured houses (one's from google warehouse, some building generators, manual modelling etc.) are used it just fills up the gpu ram and does so often to the brink of freezing and sometimes even crashing max. On my main pc, where 4gb vram gpu is used that's just a slowdown\freeze for a minute or so, as textures fill up gpu ram to the brim (and probably want much more) yet somehow max still manages to hold up, the problem is much, much worse on one of my secondary pc's where is just 1.5gb vram gpu used - that's where things are really bad.
Still, it is in no way CMLC's or Corona's fault of course - it's just a general and expected max's behaviour. It just happened when I was working on that scene with all those textures hidden (actually thanks to CMLC for allowing to quickly hide all of those with single press of a button in the first place) but when I needed to adjust some district to better fit the surrounding ones, thinking cmlc does respect those selection modes, I just selected that district group, ticked the "material of selected objects' in cmlc and bam - instead of what I expected it did so for all of those present in the scene and of course I've got those nasty freezes as one could guess ))
"The script you have linked basically does the same thing I do, just limited to Vray, Arch&Design and standard materials. So it would react the same way." - yeah basically yes but with one quite big difference for my case - it got working "selected objects only" tick which make it much more useful for such scenes, yet sadly it's not working for corona materials.
"I'll see if I can somehow include a "selected only" mode without screwing up the ui too much ;) Thanks for the suggestion.
[Edit] Done, will be available in the next update."
Cool ! thanks as always )
"I also tried the paint-codes script but it fails on creating CoronaMtls. It's encrypted so I cannot help".
- well yes not for v1.0 materials but it worked for alpha's ones - right now I just fire it up and use an eyedropper tool to copy those colours from script's window to my material. Seeing how helpful you've been for some scripters already I thought maybe, if you you've found some time, you could advise the maker on how to make it more corona friendly or something like that. Well he actually even asked for such help ))
ps: Sorry for cluttering the thread )