Max plus combine materials

[elpie89]

Does anyone know how to call a method with this signature?

CombineMaterials(Mtl mat1, Mtl mat2, int & mat2Offset)

How to pass the BitWise operator?

Thanks

[Swordslayer]

That's not a bitwise operator, it indicates you're supposed to pass that by reference rather than by value (it will save the resulting material count into the variable).

[elpie89]

Ok thanks, can you write a really simple example.

Because I'm really struggling with this

Thanks again

[elpie89]

I tried everything with this.

Asked on the forum of techartist.org, there is an entire discussion with no solution

Is this possible to do from python?

[Swordslayer]

Python doesn't support the option of by-reference passing and it's usually handled by the library that wants to make it available (like with ctypes.byref when using ctypes). I don't think the setup for the SWIG that wraps the C++ functions in max was done with that in mind (but don't ask me, I would never use MaxPlus in production and in general avoid python in max as it's the slowest and least stable choice you can make).

[denisT.MaxDoctor]

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@Swordslayer wrote:

 (but don't ask me, I would never use MaxPlus in production and in general avoid python in max as it's the slowest and least stable choice you can make).

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100% agree

[elpie89]

I'm starting to understand why..thanks Autodesk for this great tools