Changing Defaults 2005-05-23 - By Andy Jones
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What's really annoying is that even when you duplicate a pass, it
changes some options, like the image format, back to the default. Why
would it do that? As far as output image formats are concerned, XSI
only exposes a few of the options. Mental Ray can actually write a lot
more formats. In particular, .iff is really useful as it supports
floating point, has good compression, and is well-supported in programs
like Shake. It's possible to make a geometry shader that changes the
output format to anything Mental Ray supports.
-Andy
Eric Lampi wrote:
>Thanks for all of the suggestions, actually I had been
>scripting this to happen to all of the passes, but I
>would prefer an idiot proof approach since sometime
>you have to pass stuff off to a NooB or create new
>scenes with imported elements.
>
>E
>
>--- guillaume laforge <guillaume.laforge.3d@(protected)>
>wrote:
>
>
>>For the camera settings you can open a camera PPP
>>and choose your settings,
>>then save a preset in
>>C:\Softimage\XSI_4.2\Data\DSPresets\Primitives with
>>a
>>name like camera_pal.
>>Open a windows explorer and replace the
>>"Camera.preset" (make a copy before)
>>by your"camera_pal.preset".
>> Cheers
>> Guillaume
>>
>> 2005/5/23, Rob Wuijster <rob@(protected)>:
>>
>>
>>>Not just filesizes, what about camerasettings? It
>>>
>>>
>>would be nice to be
>>
>>
>>>able to set some of the renderoptions to a default
>>>
>>>
>>one, so it's the same
>>
>>
>>>every time you create a new pass/scene. We don't
>>>
>>>
>>all live in NTSC-land
>>
>>
>>>you know ;)
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>rob
>>>
>>>-- --Original Message-- --
>>>From: owner-xsi@(protected)
>>>
>>>
>>[mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf
>>
>>
>>>Of Wayne Williams
>>>Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 5:28 PM
>>>To: XSI@(protected)
>>>Subject: RE: Changing Defaults
>>>
>>>I've wondered the same thing Eric. Usually I'll
>>>
>>>
>>run SelectObj
>>
>>
>>>"Passes.*.RenderOptions", hit enter, and just edit
>>>
>>>
>>from there after I
>>
>>
>>>have all my passes built. You still have to go
>>>
>>>
>>back and manually change
>>
>>
>>>the name for each pass though. One thing I noticed
>>>
>>>
>>is that if you have
>>
>>
>>>an unlocked ppg open in one pass then switch to a
>>>
>>>
>>different pass...the
>>
>>
>>>ppg doesn't update. You have to manually click the
>>>
>>>
>>render options in the
>>
>>
>>>explorer view. IMO it should just auto flip to
>>>
>>>
>>whatever pass is current
>>
>>
>>>unless locked down.
>>>
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