On 5/1/07, Andy Jones <andy(at)thefront.com> wrote:
This is my experience as well. The hack of getting at cluster materials
through proxy objects, while occasionally a useful hack, isn't really a
scalable production-worthy strategy. If I'm not misunderstanding the
setup you're describing, I think it also has the problem that you can't
override the same material on two different clusters two different
ways.
you can by adding to this method a custom param driving an override,
(so for example multiples of same characters can be differentiated)
but requires an exact order of setup, and now you have a kludge of a
kludge :/ It worked in production on a feature but is a very scary
item to be passing around a pipeline due to its fragility and unusual
setup, and forget explaining it to texture/shader artists.
I agree Andy its just an occasionally useful hack, and although i did
with my fingers crossed, its not something to make standard in a mid
to large production.
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