Confused about editing vs. loading shaders 2004-02-01 - By domnei1
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O.k., so I'm new to Carrara (as of a few days ago),
so I apologize if this is a dumb question. But I've
read the manual and tried a while on my own, if that's
any consolation.
Suppose (as I would think will happen all the time) I
have a scene with, say, 7 different objects sharing the
exact same texture. To begin with suppose I make or get one
shader I like and apply it manually (by dragging or
with the eyedropper or something) to all 7 objects. It's
a "master shader" I guess.
Now if I want to *edit* that shader, I know how to do that.
I open it in the shader editor, an annoying dialogue comes
up that basically says "do you really want to do this?", I
say yes, and then edit away. When I change the shader the
shading of all 7 objects changes. Cool.
But...there's this little button next to the shader preview
in the Assemble room called "Preset", which looks pretty
darn useful, as it allows me to load a completely new texture.
But when I do that only 1 of my 7 objects changes, and I then
have to copy the new texture (again) to the other 6. That
might be o.k. if it's really 7, but what if it's 97?
Obviously people have to do this all the time, so what am
I missing? What's the easy way to do this? It's like I
want the ability inside the shader editor to do a "load"
rather than an "edit", but I don't see a way to do it there
either.
Side question: any good resources (free is nice, but not
necessary) for obtaining additional pre-made shaders? I intend
to get into learning how to make 'em myself, but for now
just having more good ones available would be nice.
Thanks in advance.
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