Swatch rendering in mental ray for Maya not supporting custom shaders and t

[alex-oddbratt]

I'm currently developing my own mental ray shaders and wish to add a separate menu in the hypershade so that I can keep them all gathered in one place. Adding that menu is fine as well as adding my custom shaders to it, but since the swatch rendering in mental ray for Maya is only supported for material shaders, procedural texture shaders, sample compositing shaders, and data conversion shaders, I'm not getting any swatches for my shaders.

Is there any way to override this so that custom shaders under custom menus also support swatch rendering?
Or am I forced to keep all my shaders under the mental ray->Materials tab?

[joojaa]

Not that i know of (not that way anyway) use a naming convention so you can filter instead. 

Tough you may alter the way the hypershade works to compensate, its all mel/python so you can modify it to your hearts content. Personally i would just save the filter into the menus. That way you get the categories AND you get to simply see just your shaders when needed.