collada.material.Material

class collada.material.Material(id, name, effect, xmlnode=None)

Bases: collada.common.DaeObject

Class containing data coming from a <material> tag.

Right now, this just stores a reference to the effect which is instantiated in the material. The effect instance can have parameters, but this is rarely used in the wild, so it is not yet implemented.

__init__(id, name, effect, xmlnode=None)

Creates a material.

Parameters:

• id (str) – A unique string identifier for the material
• name (str) – A name for the material
• effect (collada.material.Effect) – The effect instantiated in this material
• xmlnode – If loaded from xml, the xml node

Methods

__init__(id, name, effect[, xmlnode])	Creates a material.
load(collada, localscope, node)	Load and return a class instance from an XML node.
save()	Saves the material data back to xmlnode

id = None

The unique string identifier for the material

name = None

The name for the material

effect = None

The collada.material.Effect instantiated in this material

xmlnode = None

ElementTree representation of the surface.

static load(collada, localscope, node)

Load and return a class instance from an XML node.

Inspect the data inside node, which must match this class tag and create an instance out of it.

Parameters:

• collada (collada.Collada) – The collada file object where this object lives
• localscope (dict) – If there is a local scope where we should look for local ids (sid) this is the dictionary. Otherwise empty dict ({})
• node – An Element from python’s ElementTree API

save()

Saves the material data back to xmlnode