[SOLVED] Reimport materials that were exported in json format: Is it possible now?

[Mystik]

Hi!

One of my colleague accidently deleted a folder of 600 materials and sadly, our last checkpoint (in version control) was before the materials were made.

Luckily, we have all of them exported in Json format.

1 - Is it possible to recreate an asset material based on the exported json?

I know that I can open the Json file,verify all the parameters one by one and edit recreate them in the editor, but, I prefer something automatic, because 600 x lots of params, it’s a long run…

When I import the exported material (in json format), in the editor, it is a json asset, so my second question is:

2 - Is it possible to convert a json asset to a material asset?

Thank you

[Leonidas]

That’s quite unfortunate, there isn’t an official way of importing a material in editor from the .json asset.

But the unofficial editor API can be leveraged for this, hold on I may have some code handy.

[Leonidas]

Here you go, use the code from this forum post, if you have any question feel free to ask. I’ve just verified that it works quite ok:

[SOLVED] Merging projects

Yes, you can use the method that the Editor uses when duplicating a material: Open up your PlayCanvas editor Fire the JS console. Copy paste the following code replacing the JSON in the data property with your material JSON. // create a simple red material asset // this method will work only with material assets editor.call('assets:create',{ type: 'material', name: 'Material Name', tags: null, source: false, data: JSON.parse('{"diffuse":[0.0,0.5,1]}'), preload: true })…

[Mystik]

Wow! This is very interesting! It’s working well!

In fact, you are not far away to have a tool for that.

Thank you for your fast response.