Do you really need to separate referenced matlibs from models? Because any materials you use in a model appear as a referenced matlib anyway.
At work we use refmodels all over the place and they work great. Our materials are on the render models and we update the emdl when we need to change the shaders. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Andi Farhall <[email protected]> wrote: > greetings, > > I've never really trusted reference models and usually try to avoid them > but sometimes they're just too tempting...... I'm doing a few shots of > arnold rendered character and I wanted to have a ref model for my lights > and a ref matlib all driven from a master scene, to make tweaking easy when > the number of shots grows, So i rebuild my setup from scratch and it's all > lovely untill i apply a cache (icecache) to my character. The scene will > save but bombs on load. It's fine before i apply the cache. if i was doing > a bunch of stills it would be grand but.... and to make things even > weirder, I can rebuild the scene and if i leave everything in the two base > partitions it also works fine with the cached version. Lastly and just to > make sure I've no hope whatsoever of debugging the scene I can also rebuild > it from scratch with everything in the right partitions, and cached but not > using ref model then it also plays nice. > > Having had issues in the past trying to FBX a crowdFX sim with arnold > shaders i wondered if there was an issue with the export, but it renders > expected locally using ref matlibs so i'm stumped. Lights in a ref model > shouldn't be an issue right? > > I'm stumped, and as is the way with these things had to go for a slightly > more round the houses approach to get these shots out but i would really > like a better setup for the future... and ref model experiences greatly > absorbed.... > > > cheers, > > Andi > > .... > > > ........................................................................... > http://www.hackneyeffects.com/ > https://vimeo.com/user4174293 > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ > http://spylon.tumblr.com/ > > This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended > solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or > opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily > represent those of Hackney Effects Ltd. > > If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take > any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. > > Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in > error. > ------------------------------------------------------------ >
