Finding shaders


Before Softimage 2011, we used to use FindObjects() with a shader CLSID to find all instances of a shader. But as of Softimage 2011, all shaders have the same CLSID, so you have to use the ProgID to find all instances of a certain type of shader.

// Find all Color_correction shader nodes

var sProgID = "Softimage.sib_color_correction.1.0"

var oShaderDef = Application.GetShaderDef( sProgID ) ;
oEnum = new Enumerator( oShaderDef.ShaderInstances ) ;
for (;!oEnum.atEnd();oEnum.moveNext() )
{
	var oShaderInstance = oEnum.item() ;
	LogMessage( oShaderInstance.fullname );
}

You can find the ProgID of a shader using the SDK Explorer:

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