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I have a model I exported from 3dsmax using the .fbx format but all the materials are black so the textures don't show unless I change each material to white. So is there an easier method to doing this as there are hundreds of materials I have to change.

Note: I exported from 3dsmax and imported into blender.

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  • Possible duplicate of .fbx export why there are no materials or textures? – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Jun 04 '17 at 02:15
  • no because I have all my materials and textures it's just because my materials are black that the textures don't show – Baconsoda Jun 04 '17 at 02:16
  • Have you created these materials in Blender, or were they the direct result of importing? – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Jun 04 '17 at 02:19
  • I state at the beginning that I exported from 3dsmax so it's a result of importing – Baconsoda Jun 04 '17 at 02:21
  • So how is it not a duplicate, have you read the linked answer? What does it say there? – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Jun 04 '17 at 02:22
  • I exported a 3d model that I made in 3dsmax as a fbx file and I am importing it into blender but because exporting is never perfect as the post you linked states so all my materials are black so the textures don't show when I add lighting so I have to change the materials to white for the textures to show so I would like to change all of the materials to white without doing it manually. – Baconsoda Jun 04 '17 at 02:25
  • Oh ok, I see it now, vote retracted. I don't think that is going to suffice to get proper materials for rendering but that is probably another issue. I know of no native way of batch changing materials in Blender, at least not without some custom python scripting. – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Jun 04 '17 at 02:28
  • Maybe this can help https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/23882/how-can-i-change-the-color-of-a-material-using-python-script – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Jun 04 '17 at 02:31
  • Well I have used it before but I only used a section of it for a scene I just had to manually change all the materials that were visible to white and it rendered the textures it's just I would like to make it hassle free when I want to use it by changing every material to white so I when I wanna use a different section I don't have to go through that process again. But thanks for your help anyways. edit: I'll try that – Baconsoda Jun 04 '17 at 02:35
  • Using that I will have to enter each of the materials names into it and there are over 260 materials that each have a unique name – Baconsoda Jun 04 '17 at 02:43
  • Well I am no coder but maybe if you wrap that code in some sort of while or foreach loop maybe you don't have to do it all by hand. – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Jun 04 '17 at 02:45

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I tried to figure it out on my own and I found a few traces but I was stuck so I asked for some directions to get it done using python.

So here's the solution to changing multiple materials using python. https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/80737/39857

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