It still isn't possible in 5.0 or 5.1
For me, this is a huge issue that would be very welcome
as a change in a future version.
It's one of the reasons XSI was so frustrating for me at the beginning as an
ex-Maya user.
Sharing nodes is also a cleaner, faster, more efficient way to work. Maya is
not known for it's efficiency (and actually, XSI is!)
but Maya always had an elegant way to share and reuse assets within and
across shaders.
It's certainly not something that makes me want to stop using XSI (or, dear
God, go back to Maya) but it would make me SO much faster
with what I do.
Just my thoughts on the matter.
Perry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luke" <luke(at)rsp.com.au>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: sharing nodes between materials?
> From my understanding this is not possible ( at least I know for a fact
> it wasn't in 4.2 ) - feel free to correct me if I am wrong Raf?
> Whilst this is irritating in a lot of cases, it is possible to do
> something similar to what you are after.
>
> It should be simple enough to write a quick script that creates an
> expression so that when you run the script you get a copy of the
> shadetree node with all of it's editable parameters connected to the
> node it was copied from.
>
> This way you can then tweek the "master" and the "slave" shadetree nodes
> will follow those settings.
>
> Maybe not ideal but I haven't had to deal with this problem before, so
> that would be my first suggestion.
> Can you instance shadetree nodes? Cause that would be the same type of
> thing, but a simpler and more elegant solution.
>
> If this sounds good to you and you are having trouble making such a
> script let me know and I'll whip up something quickly for you.
>
> cheers,
>
> Luke
>
> Tim Leydecker wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > please excuse my ignorance if this is interferes with the
> > basic concepts of XSI and the rendertree but I wonder
> > if it is possible and feasible to share a single node, an
> > XSIambientocclusion node in my case between multiple
> > materials via the rendertree or by scripting in XSI 5.01?
> >
> > I´ve been using Maya the last couple of minutes and
> > realized I´m often sharing all sorts of nodes, textures
> > or even mix materials using the Hypershade but have so
> > far only assigned materials *globally* in XSI by using
> > either partitions or groups. It turns out a bit tedious to
> > setup the same settings for a *large* amount of materials.
> >
> > What´s the way of doing this in XSI?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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