Re: Grouped Cluster Materials and Passes (speaking of overrides)

["Eric Deren" <eric(at)dzignlight.com>]

 Wow, that sounds like a real party, Adam.  I actually thought of that 
one but it seemed like I was really not reading the manual.  It's nice 
to know that when I have what I think is a stupid question it turns out 
I've run into the edge of the capabilities of the software.  Makes me 
feel better about my skillset, anyway.  :-)

 I think I'll come at this from a different direction.  Thanks for 
everyone's help, though!  :-)

-Eric


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Sale" <adamsale(at)shaw.ca>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: Grouped Cluster Materials and Passes (speaking of 
overrides)


> Hey E... only thing I can think of is to use extract polygons to 
> extract each poly cluster object into its own object, and then copy 
> the shader from the cluster level back to the object level..
>
> then you could group and override from there..
>
> Unfortunately clusters aren't supported at the pass level...
> If the shader tree is simple enough, you could maybe try rendermapping 
> the clusters into a texture, and then apply it at the object level
> and then delete the clusters..
> But if you're hoping to alter cluster materials through partitions, 
> you're hooped....
>
> On an aside note completely unrelated to passes and clusters.. lets 
> get on this figueroa thing.. we may have to explore other options..
> 8th on the waiting list sounds sort of hit and miss.
>
> A.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Deren" <eric(at)dzignlight.com>
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 1:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Grouped Cluster Materials and Passes (speaking of 
> overrides)
>
>
> > That email should have read:
> >
> > ---------------------------------------
> >
> > I've got about thirty objects, each with multiple clusters that I've
> > organized into groups and assigned materials to at the group level. 
> > Now I want
> > to change those materials as an override in a partition in a separate 
> > pass.
> >
> > Simply dragging the group of clusters into a new partition doesn't
> > appear to be the way to do this.  Any hints?
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> > ---------------------------------------
> >
> > Sorry about that; it's my first time typing English, evidently.
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Eric Deren" <eric(at)dzignlight.com>
> > To: <xsi(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:17 PM
> > Subject: Grouped Cluster Materials and Passes (speaking of overrides)
> >
> >
> > > I've got about thirty objects, each with multiple clusters that I've 
> > > added into groups and assigned materials at the group level.  Now I 
> > > want to change those materials and their for a partition in a 
> > > separate pass.
> > >
> > > Simply dragging the group of clusters into a new partition doesn't 
> > > appear to be the way to do this.  Any hints?
> > >
> > > -Eric
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