Worm Face is a texturing application that mimmicks a couple features of the Texture Application tool that is in Hammer.

The tool is still in development. Please report any problems.

What the tool does:

• Lets you pick a material for use by browsing your material libraries
• Lets you pick materials for use by ALT+CLICKING faces in the viewport
• Lets you dump the current material onto any* face in the viewport

General Usage

1. Assign a material to use for dumping onto faces. Do this by clicking Get Material from Library; you can also ALT+CLICK a face to assign the material in that face (after you have started the tool--see next step).
2. Click the Start button in Worm Face to activate it.
3. Start clicking any face you want to dump the material into.
4. Right-Click the viewport to stop Worm Face.

What Happens

1. When you dump a material onto a face, the tool checks to see if the target object already has a material. If not, the tool will apply a material to it.
2. If the current material is not a Multi/Sub-Object material, a Multi/Sub-Object material is applied to the object and the currently existing material is applied to Material Slot 1. In this case, all faces are given Material ID 1.
3. If the current material is a Multi/Sub-Object material, the tool checks to see if the dumped material is already part of the material list of the Multi/Sub-Object Material. If so, the face is given the appropriate Material ID. If not, the material is appended to the material list and the picked face is given this new ID.

Running Worm Face

Worm Face was added to WWMT V.1.55. You can run it via the MAXScript Menu at C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2012\Scripts\WallWorm.com\WallWormUtilities\wallwormface.ms

You can also install it into your 3ds Max UI by running C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2012\Scripts\WallWorm.com\WallWormUtilities\wormface_mcr.ms. After running this script, you can find Worm Face in your Max customization under Wallworm.com.

• As of WWMT Version 1.55, there will be a Worm Face item in the Wall Worm Menu if you open the WWMT Config Settings and press the Add to Menu button.

Considerations & Hints

* You can only Dump materials onto Editable Poly

At the moment, you can only dump materials onto faces of an Editable Poly. If you try to dump a material onto any other object, you will be prompted with a notice that it only works on Editable Poly objects.

There is a Check Button labeled Convert To Poly. When on, you will not see a warning, and the picked object will be converted into an Editable Poly and the texture will be applied.

Note that this tool does allow you to pick materials from any object... it's the dumping that is currently limited to Editable Poly.

Credits

When putting this tool together, I was unaware of how to implement a screen selection function. Thanks to denisT from the Area and CGTalk forums for providing a chunk of code that was used in this tool to implement the picking functions.

Feeling especially lazy while throwing this one together, I also used another resource in building this tool. Before building a function to get a Poly index from a face index, I Googled it and found a function ready to go in the CG Society forums by Enrico.