[Closed] Assign material through variable

PolyHertz

Mar 03, 2016 1:43 am

How would you assign a material via a variable that contains the current material that’s being overwritten? That is;

myMaterial = meditMaterials[1]
myMaterial = Multimaterial()

Something like that, except for overwriting the material instead of the variable.

2 Replies

denisT

Mar 03, 2016 1:43 am

see replaceinstances in the mxs help

PolyHertz

Mar 03, 2016 1:43 am

Thanks! That did the trick

Just in case anyone else comes across this topic in the future, this is basically how it works:

curMat = meditmaterials[1] --Create initial variable
 newMatInst = createInstance (DirectX_9_Shader) --Create an instance of what you want to apply.
 replaceinstances curMat newMatInst --replace the old node in scene with the new instance.
 newMatInst.useshaderfx = 2 --Do stuff to the new node.