SetLink in a material

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On 15/01/2008 at 18:53, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Cinema 4D Version:   9.6+
Platform:   Windows ; Mac ; Mac OSX ;
Language(s) :     C++ ;

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Hello All,

i'm trying to setlink inside a my custom material with two others materials allocated and inserted in the same scene with:

front=(BaseMaterial* )bcmat->GetMaterialLink(VRAY2SIDEDMATERIAL_PARAMS_LINK1, pp->GetDocument());
back=(BaseMaterial* )bcmat->GetMaterialLink(VRAY2SIDEDMATERIAL_PARAMS_LINK2, pp->GetDocument());

if (front) {
frontMat=(BaseMaterial* )front->GetClone(NULL,NULL);
scene->pDoc->InsertMaterial(frontMat);
bcmat->SetLink(VRAY2SIDEDMATERIAL_PARAMS_LINK1,frontMat);
}

but if just here i try to get the linked material:

front=(BaseMaterial* )bcmat->GetMaterialLink(VRAY2SIDEDMATERIAL_PARAMS_LINK1, node->GetDocument());

front is 0x00000000

so.. seem that i'm using the wrong way to fill the material link inside my materil..

Any help?

Thanks
Renato

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On 15/01/2008 at 22:25, xxxxxxxx wrote:

This is the material snapshot:

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On 16/01/2008 at 08:36, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi all,

please it's urgent for us :(

Cheers
Renato

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On 17/01/2008 at 20:28, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi all,

i see that the CopyTo for this material is called 3 time.

The first one is all ok, the snode links to materials are copied to the dnode.. it work :)
now the current dnode is the same (same pointer) as the previous dnode.. but the 2 material link are now NULL;

the rendering is called..

as the first time, it work but unuseless.. :(

What i really don't understand, why the entire container is not copied? I used to play inside the copyto to understand what's can be the cause..

still investigating..
Renato T.

Edit:

I forgot.. this problem is only in the material preview.. all kind of rendering are working very good..

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On 20/01/2008 at 08:44, xxxxxxxx wrote:

The problem is that the material preview is designed to only copy one material to a new (internal) document. Links only work within the same document, so that's why it fails.
I'm sorry, but I don't see a solution for this type of purpose right now!

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On 20/01/2008 at 08:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello Philip,

Thanks for your answer.. but really there is no solution?
Do i must write my custom preview routine and bypass the pDoc things?

Cheers
Renato

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On 20/01/2008 at 09:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:

You could try to detect a material preview situation and use GetData(id).GetBaseLink()->ForceGetLink() instead of GetMaterialLink().
ForceGetLink does no document checking but is risky in a multithreaded environment as the one document might be long gone by the time you access it. Therefore it should be limited to the material preview situation only.

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On 20/01/2008 at 11:28, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks Philip,

i'll try..

but what about a custom preview scene?

Cheers
Renato