topic Re: Get Material By Name using MaxPlus in 3ds Max Programming Forum

Get Material By Name using MaxPlus

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:34:03 GMT

Hi,

I've looking around for a while and cannot figure out how, using MaxPlus in Python, I can :

- list materials that are in the material editor
- or get a material by name

This has to work on Max 2016 so I cannot use pymxs.

Thanks for reading me !

Re: Get Material By Name using MaxPlus

drew_avis — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:30:25 GMT

Hi there, this will list the names of the materials in the editor:

# Get all the material names in the Material Editor
import MaxPlus

num_mats = MaxPlus.MaterialEditor.GetNumSlots()
for i in range(0,num_mats):
	mtl = MaxPlus.MaterialManager.GetMtlSlot(i)
	print mtl.GetFullName()

Hope that helps,

Drew

Re: Get Material By Name using MaxPlus

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:34:48 GMT

Thanks ! That does help a lot indeed.

Just to be sure, there is no faster to find one specific material than going through the whole list ?

Re: Get Material By Name using MaxPlus

drew_avis — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:55:26 GMT

I don't see any API for doing that, sorry. Also note that this only works for the Material Editor, not the Slate Material Editor, which doesn't have any exposure to MaxPlus.

Drew

Re: Get Material By Name using MaxPlus

loginarek — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 17:59:51 GMT

still no such option?