how to check state of texture channel?

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Hi @ all,

I’m currently writing an exporter for a game engine. To avoid unnecessary data and confusion I want to export only enabled textures. Could someone tell me please where I can find the information wether a texture channel is enabled or disabled? I searched Material, MTex and Texture for this but found nothing.

Thanks and regards,
Uschi0815

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i looked, coulnt find it. it should return a tuple of (flag, mtex), or something similar, where flat is true or false. I looked in mtex too for a property or something, but it is not obvious. im a newbie at the api, sorry.

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I looked in the actual source code and I don’t believe there is a function that will return this value (the API docs don’t list one either for that matter). Not sure how hard it’d be to add this functionality…

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it must be somewhere, as a mtex.enabled, or .active or something, because the blend file remembers which ones were active or not…just not looking in the right place, i guess…

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Its stored as a property of materials in the septex field of the material struct (from what I can tell). The function for returning this field, though, is not defined in the API. (There are declarations for getting and setting this field, but they’ve been commented out).

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cute. well, on behalf of the OP, thanks for looking into this, forTe. you get the cookie today!! WITH chocolate milk.

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Score! Cookie! :cool:

Too bad there’s no solution (there probably is some really creative one, but I can’t think of it)…:frowning:

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Thank you both for your effort, at least I know now that I can stop searching. Maybe in one of the next releases, I’ll keep my fingers crossed :slight_smile: