Re: preparing materials for re-use

[Adam Sale <adamsale(at)shaw.ca>]

to add to Bernards reply, Material Libraries can be exported, reimported to other scenes or referenced for that matter..

The materials themselves can also be exported separately from the libraries. At the top right corner of every ppg in xsi is a save preset option.. In the rendertree you can save the material node as a preset, which will also save the entire tree plugged into it. If you are using the render region it sets the region contents as a thumbnail.

 

Adam

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Leydecker <BauerOink@gmx.de>
Date: Friday, August 31, 2007 4:26 pm
Subject: Re: preparing materials for re-use
To: XSI@Softimage.COM

> 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@gmail.com>
> To: <XSI@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@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@gmail.com>
> > To: <XSI@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@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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> >
> > New subscriber, long time user ;)!
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> > 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!>
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