Hypershade swatches in Qt GUI

[Michael Boon]

Hi, does anyone know if it is possible to have a Qt GUI pane that contains Maya material swatches?

I'd be happy to have an instance of the Hypershade window (but Maya won't let me create a second one).

If there was a way to get the same material swatches/icons the Hypershade uses, I'd be happy with that too.

My goal is to display a list of materials, and let the user select them using my list. I'd like the materials to have nice, up-to-date swatches. I don't (necessarily) need all the other Hypergraph functionality, like graphing networks.

Thanks,

Michael.