detecting class

Submitted by Lareon on Fri, 2012-08-10 08:51

Currently i'm editing my first major script project i've undertaken and while adding new features i've come across a bit that's stumped me.

what i want to do is perform an operation on a standard material or a vray material (copy a map) to a seperate material entirely. but i want it to detect which of the 2 types it is so i can use the correct term ie diffusemap or texmap_diffuse

so for example i have a material defined in the script to create called

"test"

so i've got

abc = meditmaterials[1]

if getnumsubmtls meditmaterials[1] == 0 do
(
test.diffusemap = copy abc.texmap_diffuse
)

now this works fine for a vray material but if the material in question is a standard material the texmap_diffuse would need to be diffusemap

how can i identify before hand whether the slot is standard material or vray material and then use the correct term?
i feel this is something very simple and i've just got a mindblock but any help is appreciated

thank you for your help guys

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Submitted by Lareon on Mon, 2012-08-13 06:16.

Thanks for that Graph. i kept

Thanks for that Graph. i kept getting errors when i was using the above method but I used the following after a bit of digging:

case of
(
(classOf meditmaterials[1]==standardmaterial):
(stuff)

(classOf meditmaterials[1]==vraymtl):
(otherstuff)
)

:) thanks again

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Submitted by Graph on Fri, 2012-08-10 09:06.

case (classOf 

case (classOf  meditmaterials[1])
(
  standardMaterial : 
  (
    do stuff()
  )
 
  otherClass : 
  (
    do other stuff()
  )
)

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