Retrieving color of maya shader in api

Question

I am retrieving shaders in maya c++ api using

fn.getConnectedShaders(0,shaders,indices);

shaders is an MObjectArray containing each shader of the selected object. How to extract the ambient color and other attributes from the shader MObject ?

Answer 1

Look into the existing plugin code. \devkit\plug-ins\D3DViewportRenderer.cpp, it extracts the "ambientColor" and other attributes.