'Bake to Layer' component with 'M' (Material) input?

Grasshopper
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I added some exception handling to what I had three days ago and was pretty happy with it until I tried passing materials through Data Output/Input. I already knew that works fine for Custom Preview (Display Material) but found that I couldn’t do it with Render Materials for baking. So I resorted to exporting JSON from mMaterial and adding a json_M component to replicate both Display and Render materials from JSON via Data Input. It’s embarrassing and I’m sorry I couldn’t do it otherwise. Now three outputs from mMaterial instead of one… :man_facepalming:

mMaterial_bake_to_layer_2020Jan23a

Here’s the code in demo models:

demo_mMaterial_2020Jan23a2
demo_mMaterial_2020Jan23a2915×629 310 KB

demo_mMaterial_2020Jan23a
demo_mMaterial_2020Jan23a854×1076 58 KB

demo_mMaterial_2020Jan23a.gh (40.4 KB)

demo_mMaterial_bake_to_layer_2020Jan23a
demo_mMaterial_bake_to_layer_2020Jan23a1051×1497 109 KB

demo_mMaterial_bake_to_layer_2020Jan23a.gh (50.7 KB)

STEP1_mMaterial_bake_to_layer_2020Jan22a
STEP1_mMaterial_bake_to_layer_2020Jan22a1257×1497 113 KB

STEP1_mMaterial_bake_to_layer_2020Jan22a.gh (44.1 KB)

STEP2_mMaterial_bake_to_layer_2020Jan22a
STEP2_mMaterial_bake_to_layer_2020Jan22a.gh (18.4 KB)

And for what it’s worth, a video:

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