Hey,

in my plugin i need to have a different material displayed in then Editor than in the rendering.
Any idea how i could achieve that? Can i listen to some kind of render message and then swap my two materials for rendering and then swap them back for the editor view?

thanks for any ideas

edit:
i’m using the bake shell material now. that seems to do the trick

If in shade method test: shadeContext.globContext->inMtlEdit

Otherwise you might listen to NOTIFY_PRE_RENDER notification. This message is supposed to be broadcast only while performing actual render, however it’s renderer dependent how it was implemented.

Hope it helps,

thanks for the hint.
i’m using the bake shell material for now but might get back to that.