[Bf-python] Getting mesh materials with the bmesh API, add bmesh.types.BMesh.materials?

[Campbell Barton]

Use bpy.types.Mesh.materials, bmesh data doesnt know about materials,
only their index - this is the case in our C code too.

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Antonio Ospite
<ospite at studenti.unina.it> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am playing with the bmesh API for VRM[1].
>
> There are still a couple of things I miss, one of them is: how can
> I access mesh materials from the bmesh interface?
>
> I see that there is a bmesh.types.BMFace.material_index but there is
> not a bmesh.types.BMesh.materials so I am not able to retrieve the
> actual material of a face using only the bmesh API.
>
> Can bmesh.types.BMesh.materials be added?
> Or am I supposed to keep using bpy.types.Mesh.materials to retrieve mesh
> materials?
>
> Thanks,
>   Antonio
>
> [1] http://vrm.ao2.it/
>
> --
> Antonio Ospite
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>
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