Hi, I'm working on updating my .blend file reader to the be able to read BMesh data. At this point, I have everything working except for the material index - The value in MPoly.mat_nr doesn't seem to correspond to the material index as I previously understood it. For example, I have a mesh with 3 materials saved as a .blend file. When I look at the Mesh.mat array, I see that there are in fact 3 materials in the list. But when I look at the Mesh.mpoly list, all of the values for mat_nr are zero.

(If you are wondering why I am reading .blend files, this is to do offline bulk conversions.)

material_index of 0 means the first material of object is assigned to that polygon. If there wasn't a material assigned, it would be -1

This is python, but i believe the relationships equal in C code:

Code:

mat_index = bpy.data.objects['Mesh'].data.polygons[0].material_index mat = bpy.data.objects['Mesh'].data.materials[mat_index] # mat is bpy.data.materials['Material']

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CoDEmanX wrote:

material_index of 0 means the first material of object is assigned to that polygon. If there wasn't a material assigned, it would be -1 This is python, but i believe the relationships equal in C code: Code: mat_index = bpy.data.objects['Mesh'].data.polygons[0].material_index mat = bpy.data.objects['Mesh'].data.materials[mat_index] # mat is bpy.data.materials['Material']

I've inspected the data using the methods you suggested. What I am seeing is that every polygon has a material index of 0, even though the mesh uses three different materials. So I'm still confused.

And before you ask:

* It's a single object, not several different objects.
* The object has multiple materials each having a different texture.
* I can see all three materials in the 3d modeling window.

However, this does clear up one point - since I'm seeing the same thing in memory as I am seeing in the .blend file, that means that it's not a problem with my .blend file reader.

But I don't understand how I can be seeing multiple materials in the editor, and yet every polygon has a material_index of 0.

Here's an example of what I am seeing:

Code:

>>> [poly.material_index for poly in bpy.data.objects['Wall'].data.polygons] [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

I figured it out - they were all using the same material, but different textures because the UV maps were different. The relationship between the UV map texture and the material texture is something that I frequently find confusing.