Set Material Preview

Helper

On 09/03/2013 at 11:37, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm trying to change the preview of a material from the normal sphere object in python. I found some documentation on it in the C++ documentation under MaterialPreviewType but i'm not sure I have the knowledge to implement that yet. Can anyone help or point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Helper

On 09/03/2013 at 14:19, xxxxxxxx wrote:

MaterialPreviews are a CustomGui / CustomDataType which is not wrapped for Python. Basically

you would read/write it with mymaterial[c4d.MATERIAL_PREVIEW], but as i said it is not wrapped.

Helper

On 09/03/2013 at 14:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks Little Devil, that seems a bit beyond me at this point. I'll take another look when I understand more about Python.

Helper

On 01/04/2016 at 17:22, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Is the material preview type still inaccessible from Python?

Helper

On 04/04/2016 at 02:19, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

Is the material preview type still inaccessible from Python?

I'm afraid the Python API still doesn't support the MaterialPreviewData type.

Helper

On 07/11/2016 at 23:13, xxxxxxxx wrote:

And is there any way to access the general c4d settings to change the default material preview ?

EDIT:
Nevermind, got it

Helper

On 08/11/2016 at 01:32, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello,

one can change the global settings by accessing the world container. Please notice that "custom" material preview scenes have to be set differently than default material preview scenes.

  
worldContainer = c4d.GetWorldContainerInstance()  
  
# set a default value  
worldContainer.SetInt32(c4d.WPREF_MATPREVIEW_DEFAULTOBJECT_MAT, c4d.MatPreview2Torus)  
  
# or set a custom scene  
worldContainer.SetInt32(c4d.WPREF_MATPREVIEW_DEFAULTOBJECT_MAT, c4d.MatPreviewUser)  
worldContainer.SetString(c4d.WPREF_MATPREVIEW_DEFAULTUSERSCENE_MAT, "Cylinder (GI)")  
  
c4d.EventAdd()

best wishes,
Sebastian