Sharing texture nodes between materials 2005-03-28 - By Alan Jones
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No worries, Guillaume. Nice of you to throw together a script to automate it.
Cheers,
Alan.
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:48:47 +0200, Guillaume Laforge
<guillaume.laf@(protected)> wrote:
> I wrote this little script to quickly share a node/branch between two
> materials :
> /******************
> SHARE TREE SECTION
> *******************/
>
> /*
> -1 Select the node you want to use in a material from an explorer.
> -2 Run the script and pick the parameter you want to connect in the other
> material.
> (if it's a folder with alpha,blue,green,red you can also pick it).
> Now the node is share between the two materials.
> */
> var oSelNode = Selection(0);
> var opickedNode = PickObject () ;
> SIConnectShaderToCnxPoint(oSelNode, opickedNode.item(2), false);
>
> //**************************************************
>
> If the mail formatting is wrong, you can download the script here :
> www.vol2nuit.fr/scripting/share_tree_section.js
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guillaume Laforge
> CG artist
> www.vol2nuit.fr
>
> -- -- Original Message -- --
>
> From: "Guillaume Laforge" <guillaume.laf@(protected)>
> To: <XSI@(protected)>
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:19 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.
> >
> > 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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