Render tree question

2014-01-10 Thread Szabolcs Matefy
Hey guys, Is it possible to share certain nodes in the render tree between materials? I mean, that I have about 7 materials, that would share a Color Save State node which delivers the same color value to these materials. I'd like to avoid custom parameters on scene root, etc. if possible...

Re: Render tree question

2014-01-10 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Yes it is, but it's a hack and needs a few lines of scripting. The problem is you get what you describe but a shading node in Softimage can always have one owner (Material container in this case) only. So even when it is connected to other shading nodes of different material containers it will

Re: Render tree question

2014-01-10 Thread Stefan Kubicek
I found it...Ideally you could just add any shader in the scene to any Material container like so (in the example a Cell shader from "Scene_Material" to another "Material")Application.AddToContainer( "Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.Material", "sphere.Scene_Material.Cell" ) # Does not work! However,

Re: Render tree question

2014-01-10 Thread Dan Yargici
Stefano's Radio Shaders do just this if you are using MR, I believe. http://sjannuz.com/Arnold/sj_shaders/doc/sj_radio.html Not sure if they're still compatible with later versions of Soft though... DAN On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Stefan Kubicek s...@tidbit-images.comwrote: I found

Re: Render tree question

2014-01-10 Thread Dan Yargici
Looks like they're Arnold only now. On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Dan Yargici danyarg...@gmail.com wrote: Stefano's Radio Shaders do just this if you are using MR, I believe. http://sjannuz.com/Arnold/sj_shaders/doc/sj_radio.html Not sure if they're still compatible with later versions

Re: Render tree question

2014-01-10 Thread Adam Seeley
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Sent: Friday, 10 January 2014, 8:28 Subject: Render tree question Hey guys,   Is it possible to share certain nodes in the render tree between materials? I mean, that I have about 7 materials, that would share a Color Save State

RE: Render tree question

2014-01-10 Thread Matt Lind
Of Szabolcs Matefy Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 12:28 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Render tree question Hey guys, Is it possible to share certain nodes in the render tree between materials? I mean, that I have about 7 materials, that would share a Color Save State node which