Specifies the material preset to use.

Once a preset is selected, Mari updates the current values in the Material Ingest Tool dialog.

The Presets dropdown list contains the names of all preset files found in
C:\Program Files\Mari 4.8v4\Bundle\Media\Settings\MaterialIngestPresets

Note:  To load custom presets from another directory, use the MARI_MATERIAL_INGEST_PRESETS_SEARCHPATHS environment variable. See Environment Variables That Mari Recognizes.

Saves all the current values in the Material Ingest Tool dialog as an .mip preset file.

Loads a preset (.mip file).

Once loaded, the preset name is added to the Presets dropdown menu and set as the current preset.

Clears the preset values (Shader Model patterns, case sensitive and the file template) and resets them to their default.

Locks the Shader Model to the one defined in the .mma.

Once an .mma is picked, disables the Procedural Type field, and Stream Name missing streams are disabled if not all streams are present in the .mma.

You can define paths to material templates in the Mari Preferences Dialog under the Paths tab.

Locks the Shader Model to the one defined in the .mma.

Once an .mma is picked, disables the Procedural Type field, and Stream Name missing streams are disabled if not all streams are present in the .mma.

Lists the shader models of the shaders loaded in your project. This updates the table containing the streams.

This table is used to match the texture files' naming patterns to the shader input or stream they are targeted for.

Note:  You can access this list through Python using the following method: mari.shader_models.list()

Evaluates whether the stream patterns are case sensitive, in case texture files follow different capitalization conventions, for example: if set to Yes the pattern 'ao' would not match a file with 'AO' as the stream name.

Note:  Case Sensitive default to Yes.

Indicates each stream name of the current shader model set in the Shader Model dropdown.

Toggles whether or not the stream should build a procedural image node when creating a material.

Opens the Select Color dialog to set a color for the streams in case a matching texture file cannot be found.

Double-click the color swatch to open the Select Color dialog.

Note:  If the stream type is Scalar, indicated by the icon, and if no texture file can be found, a Constant node is added if the color is gray, otherwise a Vector node is added.

Specifies a list of naming patterns separated by a comma ',' in the order of importance, to identify an appropriate texture file for this stream.

Note:  Double-click the row to change the naming patterns.

Specifies the naming pattern for texture files using the following templates:

Required:

• $NAME - specifies the name of your material. You can use any set of alphanumeric characters including underscores, spaces, dashes, and periods.

• $STREAM - indicates where in the file name the pattern specified per stream should be matched.

Optional:

• $EXT - specifies any supported image extensions.

• $CHAR - ignores any arbitrary characters.

• $NUM - ignores any numbers.

• $ANY - ignores any alphanumeric characters including underscores, spaces, dashes, and periods.

• $SEP - specifies the system's path separator, forward slash / or backslash \.

• $NUM$CHAR can be used together to match against textures with their resolution in the filename, for example: myMaterial_color_4k

Note:  The default value is $NAME_$STREAM.$EXT
To specify multiple templates, use the pipe '|' symbol to separate them, for example:
$NAME_$STREAM_$NUM$CHAR.$EXT|$NAME_$STREAM_$NUM$CHAR_$NAME.$EXT
To search for texture files in subfolders, you can use the backslash \ symbol, for example, to match myMaterial\PNG\diffuse.png use the template $NAME\$CHAR\$STREAM.$EXT

Sets the root path that the Material Ingest Tool searches for collections of files matching the specified naming patterns.

Either enter the path or browse to the path using the folder button.

Note:  The default value is mari.resourses.DEFAULT_IMAGE

Specifies the ingestion method:

• Export Materials to Disk - this exports materials in .mma files to the specified location set in Material Export Path.

• Build Materials in Project - this adds materials as Tiled or Tri Planar Projection nodes in the Node Graph.

• Display Search Results Only - opens the Texture Set Search Results window which displays all the found texture sets used to create Materials in the specified Search Root Path.

Specifies the naming convention for a thumbnail file using a set number of templates:

• $NAME - any set of alphanumeric characters that represent the name of your material. You can use any set of alphanumeric characters including underscores, spaces, dashes, and periods.

• $EXT - this is replaced by any supported image type.

• $CHAR - this can be used to ignore any arbitrary characters.

• $NUM - this can be used to ignore any numbers.

• $ANY - this can be used to ignore any alphanumeric characters, including underscores, spaces, dashes, and periods.

• $SEP - this is replaced by the system's path separator (\).

Sets the path to where the Material Ingest Tool saves the generated materials.

Either enter the path or browse to the path using the folder button.

Note:  The default value should be mari.resourses.DEFAULT_EXPORT

Specifies which image based procedural node to generate materials with:

• Tiled - uses one image to tile across the model.

• Tri Planar Projection - projects the texture map on your model from three different directions (Top, Front, and Right).

Specifies in which shelf to add the generated materials.

You can add them to the Menu, Personal, or Project shelves or you can create a new shelf. Select Do Not Add to Shelf, if you don't require to add them to a shelf.

Specifies the name of the new shelf to which generated materials are added.

In the Add to Shelf dropdown, select Add to New Shelf to enable the New Shelf field.

Creates the materials using the information you provided in the Material Ingest Tool dialog.

Closes the Material Ingest Tool dialog.

Note:  The Material Ingest Tool dialog remembers the last settings used.

When unchecked, shows the full path to the found texture asset in the Matched Filename column. When checked, shows the relative path to the found texture asset.

Lists the texture filenames for a given stream name found using the naming pattern specified in Filename Template.

If no texture assets are found for a given stream name, No images found matching patterns is displayed next to the stream name.