Re: preparing materials for re-use

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

Thanks guys,

I didn´t know one can save material libraries
seperately as *.xsi. Nice!

Having some procedural/dummy textures
is good as well (like a texture with "texture"
written into it, or "displacement")

Cheers

tim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Rouleau" <matt.rouleau(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: preparing materials for re-use


> Hello!
>
> New subscriber, long time user ;)!
>
> For place holders, I usually use a checkerboard texture, straight out of 
> XSi. I rename it in the same way that Tim says, as a reference to 
> eventually plug in your custom texture map. This way, you can quickly test 
> out your materials in rendes, withought the funky NoIcon colors!
>
> Personal preference.
>
> Matthew
> senior 3D artist, Buzz Imge Group
>
> Bernard Lebel wrote:
> Absolutely. Look for material libraries in the Explorer (switch to the
> Materials scope).
> You can export libraries as dotXSI.
>
>
> Cheers
> Bernard
>
>
>
> On 8/31/07, Tim Leydecker <BauerOink(at)gmx.de> wrote:
>  Hi Bernard,
>
> yeah, noIcon is a good idea (plus naming the nodes
> to give an idea, like "plug base texture here") but
> I meant something else.
>
> Using the dreaded phrase "in Maya or Max I could"
> simply create a shader and save it out as either a
> Maya *.ma/*.mb file (as if saving a *.scn) or in Max
> I could create a materiallibrary file to load into the
> materialeditor/slot -  I don´t know if something
> similar exists for XSI, e.g. saving out all your
> materials (as listed in a explorer) and importing
> that into another scene?
>
> Cheers
>
> tim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernard Lebel" <3dbernard(at)gmail.com>
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 3:15 PM
> Subject: Re: preparing materials for re-use
>
>
>    Well you could either include the actual texture in your centralized
> library, or you could plug a noIcon in-place.
>
>
> Cheers
> Bernard
>
>
>
> On 8/31/07, Tim Leydecker <BauerOink(at)gmx.de> wrote:
>      Hi guys,
>
> there´s options to save material/shader settings
> as presets but how do you guys usually organize
> your materials for re-use in other projects?
>
> I have several shading networks I´d like to add
> to a (hopefully growing) database of materials
> but am not sure what´s best to minimize dependecies
> (like textures, ambient/light rig settings) while making
> sure the material still gives something to work with
> on import into a fresh scene?
>
> Cheers
>
> tim
>
>
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>  Hello!
>
> New subscriber, long time user ;)!
>
> For place holders, I usually use a checkerboard texture, straight out of 
> XSi. I rename it in the same way that Tim says. This way, you can test out 
> your materials with render regions, withought the funky NoIcon colors!
>
> Personal preference.
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