Mathieu Leclaire wrote:
Then you just give it a new name... but of course you create a new shader
and you have to use that one from now on but you'll get your settings by
default. If you have old scenes that you want to update to the new setting I
guess you have no choice but to do a script to do it. It all depends on what
you want to do. You basically just want to turn some switches on. If you
want them to be on by default from now on, I see a few possibilities:
First one is to do Matt's method and change all the spdls on all the
machines. Quite long and painful depending on how many machines you have.
It worked out okay that way, not too bad since our systems person could
copy it en masse.
Kind of like a qfe of sorts.
The second one is coping the spdl in your workgroup, rename it, change the
guids and the default settings of the switch you want to change.
Or for a third option, you could simply create a script that'll import the
default shader and activate the switches at the same time and use this
script/button/where ever you want to call it from, and use that to get the
shader in the rendertree with the proper settings.
Yeah, except the "switches" weren't really exposed in the default
interface as buttons. I'm not sure if you can set parameter values that
are not exposed in the UI by script can you? Wouldn't the spdl
setttings of override that?
There might be a fourth option if you can set-up an event for when you get
this shader so that it'll change the settings of that new shader instance
when that event is triggered. If it is possible then you wouldn't even have
to worry about creating a button or what ever but I don't know if that event
exists. I haven't played around a lot with events lately.
Hum... just got another idea... I guess you could add a script to your
workgroup that would be triggered by an event (XSI turns-on for example)
that would go and update the local spdl of that shader so now anyone who
adds that shader will have the new updated spdl.
You have plenty of possibilities here. And like I said, if you want to
change old scenes, you're gonna have to script it or your gonna have to do
the changes manually. So I guess the only real question here is: how good
are your scripting skills?
I hope that helped you out in one way or another. Let me know if you want
more details.
Mathieu Leclaire
R&D Programmer
Hybride Technologies
Yeah, I
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