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I have many objects created by importing some .wrl files and joining several meshes toghether. The result is a set of blender objects, each with a long list of materials from its submeshes. However, these - nearly a thousand - materials are only ten different colors or so...

I know that I can manually create ten "master materials" and assign each mesh to the proper color (following the manual: reusing-existing-materials), but it is really annoying...

Is there a way to automatically "skim" the materials to ends up with a small list of colors reused by all the submeshes of the objects?

I mean something like this:

list_of_unique_materials = [] for material in bpy.data.materials: if material.users: if not **material in list_of_unique_materials**: list_of_unique_materials.append(material) else: **reuse the same material in the list**

where I'm not really sure about how to implement the code inside the asterisks...

Many thanks!

EDIT: Example

What I have now (len(bpy.data.materials) >> 805):

  • Object1
    • Mesh.001: Material.001
    • Mesh.002: Material.002
    • Mesh.003: Material.003 (same as Material.001)
    • Mesh.004: Material.004
    • ...
  • Object2
    • Mesh.101: Material.101 (same as Material.001)
    • Mesh.102: Material.102 (same as Material.002)
    • Mesh.103: Material.103 (same as Material.002)
    • Mesh.104: Material.104 (same as Material.004)
    • ...
  • ...

What I would like (len(bpy.data.materials) >> 12):

  • Object1
    • Mesh.001: Material.001
    • Mesh.002: Material.002
    • Mesh.003: Material.001
    • Mesh.004: Material.004
    • ...
  • Object2
    • Mesh.101: Material.001
    • Mesh.102: Material.002
    • Mesh.103: Material.002
    • Mesh.104: Material.004
    • ...
  • ...

This is due to the .wrl importer which has named with a new identifier every single color of the meshes that I have imported (and the total number of distinct colors in the meshes is no more than 12).

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  • $\begingroup$ Is this part of an importer? What exactly are you meaning to do when you say "reuse", just not adding it to the list? $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 19:07
  • $\begingroup$ I mean something like what has explained in the manual linked above. I've also added an example to clarify. $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 19:55

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I've made up this workaround:

import bpy def find_material(material, list): for elem in list: if material.diffuse_color == elem.diffuse_color and \ material.specular_color == elem.specular_color: return elem return False # creates a list of unique materials list_of_unique_materials = [] for material in bpy.data.materials: if material.users and not find_material(material, list_of_unique_materials): list_of_unique_materials.append(material) # updates materials of each mesh for obj in bpy.data.objects: for mat in obj.material_slots: mat.material = find_material(mat.material, list_of_unique_materials) # removes unused materials for material in bpy.data.materials: if not material.users: bpy.data.materials.remove(material)
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