Add Material to Active Layer in Material Manager
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Hello,
I want to be able to add a material to the currently selected Layer in the Material Manager, just like Cinema’s materials do. I’ve tried getting the Layer hierarchy, traversing it and looking for the BIT_ACTIVE bit being raised, but that only works for Layer selection in the Attribute Manager, not the Material Manager.
Can you suggest anything that will help me?Thank you.
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Hello @antonia-nyagolova,
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About your First Question
I am not quite sure what you mean by 'Active Layer in [the] Material Manager'? Do you mean the tabs to filter materials by layer in the Material Manager?
We generally do not expose managers/UIs in our API, so you unfortunately cannot get hold of that information.
Cheers,
Ferdinand
