It would be nice if you modellers out there would get together and agree on a standard for material naming (or zoning).

I was trying to write a script that would automatically update EZSkin definition files just by loading a new character and pressing a button. (it checks that the definition does not already exist)

I was doing rather well with it until I came across some of Snarly's EZSkin definitions and found that, although some models have the same names in their materials, they belong in different categories.

for example, cornea, - great, easy to see where that goes right? WRONG. some characters have a cornea, and it is ignored, some have one in the eyetrans catagory, still others are in the invisible category, a nightmare to try to code for.

instead of using

if mat in material:

you have to use something like

if mat in material and figure != 'thisscrewedupmaterialzonesfigure' and figure != 'thatscrewedupmaterialzonesfigure':

etc. etc.

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