I need a quick way to set a surface material node from mappable = false, to mappable = true.

Flortale

I need a quick way to set a surface material node from mappable = false, to mappable = true. The only method I have right now is editing the scene file which is a gigantic pain in the butt. In one case, there was a hair which purposely turned off the translucency color node from being mappable, which was so annoying. 

There has to be some way to quickly set nodes from mappable = false, to mappable = true. Nodes that were intended to allow you to optionally set a map. Example: Base color, Translucency Color, Top Coat Bump, Bump, Normal Map, etc.

Please help, thanks.

 

Richard Haseltine

Nodes or properties? In any event, you can't do that in geneal - all you are doing in editing the scene file is chnaging the property control, if the shader doesn't expect maps it will ignore the one added to the control (at best) or give an unexpected result, or fail completely. If you want to make unmappable propertie mappable you need a new shader (once you had that, if you named the properties sensbly, it would be quite quick to apply to existing surfaces).

Flortale

Richard Haseltine said:

Nodes or properties? In any event, you can't do that in geneal - all you are doing in editing the scene file is chnaging the property control, if the shader doesn't expect maps it will ignore the one added to the control (at best) or give an unexpected result, or fail completely. If you want to make unmappable propertie mappable you need a new shader (once you had that, if you named the properties sensbly, it would be quite quick to apply to existing surfaces).

I'll try that thanks ;)

To clarify, you're suggesting I maybe edit !Iray Uber Base, ensuring all the propertes that are mappable, stay mappable.  I don't know how it happened, but the top coat bump node becomes unmappable on genesis 8 female, so I need a quick way to fix it. It may have to do with different characters.