A useful little script for using GammaCorrection on File Nodes.

Current Version 1.3

• Just Source this script, it should open the crGammaCorrect Window.
• Adds/ Removes Gamma Correction Node to Multiple Selected File Nodes.
• Automatically Calculates the equivalent of the gamma input.
• Updates existing GammaCorrection nodes with a new gamma value.
• Support for both GammaCorrect and Mip_Gamma_Gain Node (MR).

USAGE :

1. Input the Gamma that u want to minus.
2. Select the File Node that u want to add the gamma correction on.
3. Select the type of gamma Shader that u want to use.
4. Click Update Selected.

Note: When updating of deleting the Gamma Node, u can select either the file node or the gammaNode whichever is convient :)

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A useful little script for easily converting and replacing your textures to .map files.

Current Version 1.0

• Just Source this script, it should open the crMAPswitcher Window.
• Can Convert any textures formats to a .map format. based either on selection or all the textures in scene.
• Automatically converts to .map file in background.
• Can switch selected files to its .map replacement or back to the original at the click on the button.
• All .map files are converted with filtered mipmap image pyramid method (Tile Based) for memory management.
  to know more about Mipmap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipmap
• Works with both Maya file texture nodes and MentalRay Texture Nodes.
• Looks for existing .map files and only converts files of which .map do not already exist.

USAGE :

1. Source the script. Choose to work on selected or all textures.
2. If you are working on selection basis, please select the desired file nodes, whos textures u want to convert.
3. Click the convert textures to .map button, if you only want it to convert .map that dont exist. then click the convert only button.
4. The .map file will be saved in the same folder as your original texture.
5. To switch to the .map at any time, select the texture and click switch .map file and it will pick up the relevant .map version.
6. Do the same to switch back to the original by clicking the switch to use original files.

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A useful little script for assigning a toon based wireframe to selected objects in the scene.

This Scripts is Based of my  Rendering Wireframe Using Toon Shader Tutorial

Current Version 1.0

• Just Source this script, select the single or multiple meshes of which  u want to display the wireframe,
  and Click Assign Wireframe. You should get a ready to render wireframe on your object(s).

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A useful little script for giving objects in a maya scene id numbers (miLabel).

Current Version 1.0

• Assigns an attribute called miLabel to geometry in the maya scene.
• Object IDs be assigned based on number of geometry so every single geometry will have a unique id.
• Material IDs can be assigned based on geometry that can be grouped by having common materials.
• Custom Ids can be assigned when u need to manually set a whole bunch of geometry to a particular ID.
• Works on multiple selected objects or all the objects that exist in a Maya scene.
• If u want a assign a whole group of object with incremental ids starting with a particular id like 10, then just enter that in
  the start Id.. and the id assignment of the selected objects will start with 10 and increment adding to the number of objects.

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