Edit material properties based on material name

Question

I want to process an asset library that contains four assets, one for each season per Blend file. I want to change the material properties for all objects in the Blend file based on the material name.

I have four objects in the scene, which have a suffix per season:

Now I want to change the material properties based on the season and the material itself, the name of which is the text after the last underscore (e.g. "trunk" or "rock").

Ideally, I want to input a list that contains the materials that should be processed, e.g. (leaf_flowers, leaf). Then, I need to change these properties in the main nodegroup:

As you can see, input 2 corresponds to the AUTUMN property, input 3 to WINTER and input [4] to SPRING.

The changes are as follows: If the asset contains "_summer", skip it. Summer assets have all 3 properties set by 0 as default. If the asset contains "_autumn" set input 2 to value 1. If the asset contains "_winter" set input 3 to value 1. If the asset contains "_spring" set input [4] to value 1.

Note that a typical material looks something like this: So it has one node group and this nodegroup is the one that should be affected.

Answer 1

Probably something like this will work:

import bpy
from bpy import data as D

def find_node_by_inputs(nodes, inputs):
    return next(n for n in nodes if inputs.issubset({i.name for i in n.inputs}))

for mat in D.materials:
    name_parts = mat.name.split('_')
    if len(name_parts) != 5:
        # expecting a different name
        continue
    season = name_parts[-2].upper()
    if season == 'SUMMER':
        continue
    nodes = mat.node_tree.nodes
    node = find_node_by_inputs(nodes, {'SPRING', 'AUTUMN'})  # assuming no other node has such two inputs
    node.inputs[season].default_value = 1

v2

I didn't test this code but it probably works. It has a more aggressive heuristic, matching a material and choosing the season if the word is present in the name, regardless of the punctuation:

import bpy
from bpy import data as D

seasons = {'SPRING', 'AUTUMN', 'WINTER'}

def find_node_by_inputs(nodes, inputs):
    return next((n for n in nodes if inputs.issubset({i.name for i in n.inputs})), None)

for mat in D.materials:
    detected_season = None
    name_upper = mat.name.upper()
    for season in seasons:
        if season in name_upper:
            detected_season = season
            break
    else:
        continue
    nodes = mat.node_tree.nodes
    node = find_node_by_inputs(nodes, seasons)
    if node:
        node.inputs[detected_season].default_value = 1