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I had to import many FBX files (exported from 3d max) and save them as a blender files and just now realized that all the files also imported custom properties for every objects material.

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I could delete it manually but since its a ton of files with tons of materials i'd prefer to do this by script. However I can't seem to get it to work.

I checked the python code for the custom property and was hoping I could remove it with this line:

bpy.ops.wm.properties_remove(data_path="material", property="�L��")

But that sadly didn't work. It doesn't understand the "property". I would like the script to be able to run thru all materials in the scene and then delete this (or if possible ANY) custom property for each material.

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You can delete all custom properties on all the materials in the file with this snippet :

import bpy for mat in bpy.data.materials: # Iterate over all materials props = [*mat.keys()] # Retrieve custom props names for prop in props: del mat[prop]

Note * is the iterator unpacking operator.

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  • $\begingroup$ Fantastic, this works like a charm, thank you. But what is the difference with props in mat.keys and wm.properties? Do they access different custom properties? $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 8, 2022 at 1:30
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    $\begingroup$ bpy.ops.wm.properties_remove is an operator. Long story short, this is a construct that is supposed to be used only in the UI when clicking on a button, it is very high level and has a lot of shortcomings, for example it forces a UI redraw everytime it is called. So you really should be using lower-level API whenever you can. mat.keys lets you directly get all the custom properties names in a sweep. You can access custom properties with mat["prop"] for instance like it was a python dictionary $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 8, 2022 at 6:20
  • $\begingroup$ Thank you for the explanation :) $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 13, 2022 at 23:24

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