RE: How to share material between objects? (XSI->Mray)

["Fabian" <admin(at)schnuer.com>]

Dont know if I fully understood the problem but I did a quick test here with some 2500 grids + randomize and spaced out. When grouping them and applying the shader to the group instead of each object it renders in a snap on that ancient monstrocity here. The shader was about 15 phongs and incidence nodes randomly stuffed into each other. It seems though that in the mi2 file the shader still gets copied to each object though, dont know what xsi tells MR to do. Don't know if it helps. Good luck,

Fabian

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Ben Barker
Sent: 29 April 2006 04:07
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: How to share material between objects? (XSI->Mray)

If you merge them into one it will create a new polymesh with a live connection to the original pieces through a merge op, so it will be animated with whatever deformations the source objects have.

 

I actually tried shape plotting this and it didn't work. Maybe I did something wrong.

 

But what does work is then making another duplicate of the merged mesh, freezing it, and setting a scripted op on it so it matches the position array of the polymesh with the live merge op on it (that you duplicated it from). Then you shape plot the one with the scripted op. Then you can delete the polymesh with the merge op and your 2000 source objects, and you have one mesh with deformations.

 

On 4/28/06, Schoenberger <XSI(at)digidragon.de> wrote:

> Perhaps you can merge the polymeshes, plot the shape of
> the new large polymesh, freeze out the extract op and
> delete your 2000 grids. This will make it one large
> polymesh instead of many small polymeshes, which
> XSI seems to prefer.

The grid deformation is animated, that's why I cannot merge the grids into one single grid.

I just removed all unused cross-connections and tried to reduce the nodes,
because some passes are not used in compositing.
Faster, but it still takes a lot of time...

Holger Schönberger
technical director
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