Get Material By Name using MaxPlus

[Anonymous]

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 !

[drew_avis · Accepted solution]

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

[Anonymous]

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 ?

[drew_avis]

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

[loginarek]

still no such option?