Re: sharing nodes between materials?

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

Hi Perry, Hi Luke,

I´ve been looking through the manual on using overrides,
but am a bit too wasted to get something out of it now.

I´ll have a look at it again tommorow and´ll gratefully
get back to you in case I stumble and can´t get up...

Using an override *should* be good enough for what
I need to do, e.g. plug one mib_ambientocclusion into
the ambientslot of all materials selected.

Cheers and thanks for the help offered, it´s appreciated!

tim

P.S: I really like Maya and wouldn´t want to miss the day
they revamp their mR-connection, their polygonengine and
get all those little buggers killed that have crawled in during
the last couple of versions (where they were owned by that
investment/pensions thing, e.g. milked). I hope to also see
simplified subdivisionsurfacedisplay soon...did I mention particles?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke" <luke(at)rsp.com.au>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:51 AM
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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