Corona select materials/max script help

[waynedensley]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help?
I need to render out the same part of an object many times (3ds max19) but with a different corona material applied and saved each time (using viewport selection). I have set up corona select material in one of slate editor tabs, and then I'm told I can do maybe a simple animation to render them out individually, which is great. But I cant get the material to change each time and save in the animation frames. Does anyone know how to do this? I'm told that I might be able to do this in maxscript, but i have no idea what to do with that. Even if someone knows how to do it and can set me.up for it or write the script, I'm happy to pay a small amount for it ( I have no idea of the work involved, so please let me know if this is simple)
Any help would be so appreciated!
Wayne

[sprayer]

I am rendering now doors with different material of frame and glass, i just animate CoronaSelectMtl

[Frood]

But I cant get the material to change each time and save in the animation frames.

Yes, no need for scripting this, it should be straight forward: Activate Auto Key, go to some frame, change selected slot in Corona select material and a key is created. If it does not work for frame 1 in the first place, check Customize -> Preferences Settings -> Animation "Auto Key Default Frame" and set it to "0".

Then: Render Setup -> Common Parameters -> Time Output -> Range: 0 to X if you have set your select material to slot 1 at frame 1 and to X at frame X. Adding an underscore to the base output name in "Render Output" helps to get nicer file names (frame number gets appended there).


Good Luck