Material management

[hell-raiser]

I loved maya 3.0s hypershade (among some other things).

primarily, because you had a central material management, with all shaders in one place.

Anything similar possible in XSI ??? Right now, I

[devdoka]

Rather than copying "phenomena" to all objects that wish to share a rendered effect, select your objects and put them into a group then apply your phenomena to the group node. All the group members will then inherit the phenomena as if they were applied individually.

Matt

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Matt Lind
Animator / Technical Director
Softimage certified instructor:
Softimage|3D
Softimage|XSI
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[hell-raiser]

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All the group members will then inherit the phenomena as if they were applied individually.

err, so no referenced materials other than that ??? That would mean, I have to revamp my scenes group-structure....mmmh, maybe it

[alper455]

you can also order your hierarchie, select an object in branch
mode and apply the material, it will be share to the childrens

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All the group members will then inherit the phenomena as if they were applied individually.

err, so no referenced materials other than that ??? That would mean, I have to revamp my scenes group-structure....mmmh, maybe it
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[wolfinger]

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[hell-raiser]

Thanks,

I forgot that grouping in XSI is NO hirarchical ordering (under a null-object)...silly me. I guess this also takes care of the problem with a newly applied material always showing the "wrong" (unwanted) texture-channel (instead of rgb)...

[focus3d]

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Thanks,

I forgot that grouping in XSI is NO hirarchical ordering (under a null-object)...silly me. I guess this also takes care of the problem with a newly applied material always showing the "wrong" (unwanted) texture-channel (instead of rgb)...

XSI has hierarchical ordering under null objects, and you can organize "hierarchies" in this way however you want - see this in the explorer or other windows. It's just that a "group" is a special definition for a set of objects that receive shared rendering attributes - in much the same way that you could select several objects in Maya and assign them all to the same shading group (not affecting the hierarchies there either!)