Cryptomatte duplicate material names fix

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Cryptomatte material differentiation between materials with the same name. As reported already, when materials share the same name, whether or not belonging to different multisub materials, Vray considers them the same material for masking, not sure what happens in compositing software. Unfortunately when working with external assets, people tend to name things like trunk or leafs, which, if you have 50 plants and trees from different sources, can be quite a hassle to rename manually. (VrayCryptoMatte, doesn’t work with Xref Materials. - Chaos Forums (https://forums.chaos.com/forum/v-ray-for-3ds-max-forums/v-ray-for-3ds-max-problems/1184116-vraycryptomatte-doesn-t-work-with-xref-materials) ​)

Submitted on AHA Ideas (VRAYMAX-I-25).

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What would happen if the same material is part of two different multisub materials? Should it generate the same Cryptomatte ID or different?

Submitted on AHA Ideas by Vladimir Koylazov.

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Hi, I would say it generates the same ID as it is an instanced material. But if it’s easier to do it the other way, that’s also fine. I also forgot to ask for XrefObject material support as the thread also suggests. Thank you!

Submitted on AHA Ideas.

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AHA Ideas status: Pending.
Set during AHA Ideas to Discourse migration.