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Sharing overrides

Sharing overrides

2005-04-08 - By kim aldis

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2 possibilities;

use a custom property with an expression on it to drive the displacement.

or, remove all the geometry approximation properties from your objects and
use the scene level property to control the displacement.

The former is probably preferable.

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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of
Axel Akesson
Sent: 08 April 2005 14:10
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Sharing overrides

Hi,

Is it possible in 4.2 to share an override?

I have a quite heavy scene and the displacement is the same in the entire
scene. I use an override on the partition to drive the displacement but
whenever I have to change something I have to copy and paste this override
to all the other passes and partitions (I do this by a script but it still
take time).
What I would like to have is a way to share overrides between different
passes so I could just change the displacement in one pass and it would be
changed throughout the scene.

Currently not possible??

<rant>
And material locks is still driving me insane.... if you want to change a
material in a partition that use an override it is locked and you have to
cut the override or move it to an empty partition to be able to change the
material. This is a major workflow-killer in my opinon and I hope Softimage
will give us the choice to unlock materials or set the default lock
behaviour to on or off in the next release. I could see the use for a larger
studio where you dont want people to touch your shaders but it should not be
impossible to turn this behaviour OFF.
<end rant>

Cheers,
Axel

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<DIV dir=ltr align=left>2 possibilities;</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left>use a custom property with an expression on it to
drive
the displacement.</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left>or, remove all the geometry approximation properties
from your objects and use the scene level property to control the
displacement.</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left>The former is probably
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From: owner-xsi@(protected)
[mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Axel
Akesson Sent: 08 April 2005 14:10 To:
XSI@(protected) Subject: Sharing overrides </DIV>
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<DIV class=Section1>
Hi,<o:p
></o:p>
<o:p>
 </o:p>
Is it
possible in 4.2 to share an override?<o:p></o:p>
<o:p>
 </o:p>
I have
a
quite heavy scene and the displacement is the same in the entire scene. I use
an override on the partition to drive the displacement but whenever I have to
change something I have to copy and paste this override to all the other
passes and partitions (I do this by a script but it still take
time).<o:p></o:p>
What I
would like to have is a way to share overrides between different passes so I
could just change the displacement in one pass and it would be changed
throughout the scene.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p>
 </o:p>
Currently
not possible??<o:p></o:p>
<o:p>
 </o:p>
&lt
;rant><o:p></o:p>
And
material locks is still driving me insane.... if you want to change a
material
in a partition that use an override it is locked and you have to cut the
override or move it to an empty partition to be able to change the material.
This is a major workflow-killer in my opinon and I hope Softimage will give
us
the choice to unlock materials or set the default lock behaviour to on or off
in the next release. I could see the use for a larger studio where you dont
want people to touch your shaders but it should not be impossible to turn
this
behaviour OFF.<o:p></o:p>
<end
rant><o:p></o:p>
<o:p>
 </o:p>
Cheers,
<o:p></o:p>
Axel<o
:p></o:p>
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