Re: external material libraries.....

2014-09-18 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
I reckon its safer to import them through referenced models. On Thursday, September 18, 2014, Paul Griswold < pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com> wrote: > Holy cow, talk about deja vu! > > I was up until 2:30 am dealing with the same issue. > > Are you using Mental Ray or something else? > >

RE: external material libraries.....

2014-09-18 Thread Matt Lind
That’s exactly our experience. My gut feeling is the use of dotXSI files as material libraries indicates it was a quickly implemented feature to satisfy a special projects customer and not much more than that. I had to write a database driven system to manage and version our material libraries

Re: Select many object and chose one of them to be clone or duplicated on the location of the others.

2014-09-18 Thread pedro santos
Appreciated, Simon. Cheers

Re: Select many object and chose one of them to be clone or duplicated on the location of the others.

2014-09-18 Thread Simon Reeves
I made one once upon a time, should do the job. Select objects to be replaced, run, then pick the object that should replace them http://pastebin.com/zrmCwzd9 Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com * *www.simonreeves.com * *www.analogstudio.co.uk

Re: Select many object and chose one of them to be clone or duplicated on the location of the others.

2014-09-18 Thread pedro santos
Yup, think so too, just was looking for a solution I already have seen done and working nicely so that I haven't had to spend time reinventing an already nice wheel. Looked rray, old folders, nothing. bah... :P Guess it wasn't too popular. Cheers

Re: Select many object and chose one of them to be clone or duplicated on the location of the others.

2014-09-18 Thread Alok Gandhi
don't remember but fairly easy to script On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:38 PM, pedro santos wrote: > I've used a plugin that does this. > Would allow you to choose if tou wanted to duplicate or clone I think and > more options about the target object transforms to copy. > > Rings a bell? > > Cheers >

Select many object and chose one of them to be clone or duplicated on the location of the others.

2014-09-18 Thread pedro santos
I've used a plugin that does this. Would allow you to choose if tou wanted to duplicate or clone I think and more options about the target object transforms to copy. Rings a bell? Cheers -- *--[image: http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s202/animatics/probiner-si

Re: external material libraries.....

2014-09-18 Thread Paul Griswold
Holy cow, talk about deja vu! I was up until 2:30 am dealing with the same issue. Are you using Mental Ray or something else? I'm using Redshift on this project. The only solution that managed to work was to merge the dysfunctional scene into a new scene, make sure the external material library

external material libraries.....

2014-09-18 Thread Rob Wuijster
Hi, Do people use external material libraries a lot? We tried them on a (now finished) project, but had some weird issues along the way; Objects loosing materials and rendering the default gray material, tons of non-used materials that magically appeard between sessions in scenes etc. In the