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> You can share sections without overrides as well. It's a bit of a hack
> and I'm not sure it's intentional functionality, but with scripting
> you can link the input of one node to a node from any material in the
> library.
Great tip Alan !
I thought we can't use the same node between two materials.
For those interested :
If you've got a material named "The_One" with a Cell texture in the diffuse
input and a material named "The_Other_One" without Cell texture, you can use
Cell texture from "the_one" like this :
SIConnectShaderToCnxPoint("Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.The_One.Blinn.Cell",
"Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.The_Other_One.Lambert.diffuse", false);
Now "The_One" and "The_Other_One" use the same Cell texture that you can
edit in the material you want :-)
Thanks again Alan for the tips.
Cheers,
Guillaume Laforge
CG artist
www.vol2nuit.fr
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Alan Jones" <skyphyr@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: Sharing texture nodes between materials
> You can share sections without overrides as well. It's a bit of a hack
> and I'm not sure it's intentional functionality, but with scripting
> you can link the input of one node to a node from any material in the
> library.
>
> Though you don't actually see any visual cue that a node is linked
> among multiple materials in the rendertree. So you might want to name
> the node so you realise. I can't remember the exact syntax for it but
> just drag a nodes output onto another in the rendertree and check the
> script editor. You should be able to figure out how to modify that
> easily enough.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan.
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:51:15 -0500, Bernard Lebel
> <softimage@(protected)> wrote:
>> That is absolutely possible. However not the same way it is done in Maya.
>>
>> First, you can share entire materials. Second, you can use overrides to
>> share nodes. This is not 100% like the Maya way though. Here is a
>> tutorial that should get you started.
>>
>> http://www.bernardlebel.com/tutorials/XSI_individualTextSharedMat
/IndividualTextSharedMat.htm
>>
>> (Written during the XSI 3.0 era, so in 4.0+ you will not need to do the
>> scripting override trick. I should update the turorial...)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Bernard
>>
>>
>> Andrew Konkin wrote:
>> > It's impossible .
>> > I'd been Maya user as well and this lack of ways to connect a one
>> > texture to many materials did disappoint me first time very much.
>> >
>> > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:11:17 +0200, Yaniv Gorali
>> > <yaniv@(protected)> wrote:
>> >
>> >>Hi all.
>> >>I'm a Maya user and used to the sharing capabilities of textures nodes
>> >>between materials. I'm wondering how this is done in XSI. Forgive the
>> >>beginner question, but I've been using XSI for a very short time.
>> >>
>> >>Thanks in advance!
>>
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