RE: Scripting - accessing Partition materials in non active Passes

["Adam Seeley" <adam.seeley(at)clearpost.co.uk>]

Hi,

 

Cool, did the job.

 

Thanks for the help guys.

 

Adam.

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Steven Caron
Sent: 24 May 2007 18:41
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Scripting - accessing Partition materials in non active Passes

.localproperties should give you what you want

On 5/24/07, Adam Seeley <adam.seeley(at)clearpost.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

(in a nutshell)

Is there any way to access a Partitions Material when the Pass it belongs to isn't the Active one?



(not in a nutshell)

I'm creating a script that finds a the Material that has been assigned to a Partiton.
It's fine if the Pass is the current Pass, but is it possible to access a Partions Material if the Pass isn't the current one?

E.g.
Select a Partion in the current Pass with a Material applied and run

Set oSelection = application.selection(0)
logmessage "mat : " & oSelection.Material.Name

It will give you the Material name.
If you select a Partition that has a Material applied but it's Pass is not the current one, then the Material doesn't register (as per the Explorer view).

I could Set each Pass to Current as I go through them but that would slow the script a tad!


Thanks,

Adam.

(P.s. Still in VB land, but it probably won't matter.)

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