 | | | Sharing texture nodes between materials | Sharing texture nodes between materials 2005-03-28 - By Oscar Juárez
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Thanks Alan and Guillaume, very very nice
The only thing that ive seen is that you cant connect or disconnect from
any port
in the render tree, i had to delete the material that shared the node.
At least this happened to me when sharing a blinn node.
still its a very very nice thing.
Guillaume Laforge 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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