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 <[email protected]>wrote: > 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, above line fails because AddToContainer expects a preset and not > an existing shader. > > So instead you can make a connection directly between an existing shader > output and another ones input, even if they reside in different materials. > The following requires you to know the out and input parameter names of > your shaders. The following connects the out param of an existing cell > shader of the Scene_Material to the ambient input parameter of another > Materials Blinn shader. > > Application.SIConnectShaderToCnxPoint("Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.Scene_Material.Cell.out", > "Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.Material.Blinn.ambient", False). > > Change your parameter names accordingly and you get what you want, but > it's farm from user friendly and Softimage certainly never was intended > to do that, so use at your own risk. The connection is preserved between > sessions (save/reload). > I just tried with a simple scene and it works for Mentalray, Vray and > Arnold. 3Delight will ignore the connections (I guess they are querying for > "Material.Shaders" only at export time and ignore all other inputs for > performance reasons). I did not test Redshift or Maxwell. > > Let me know how it goes. > > 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… > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > Szabolcs > ___ > This message contains confidential information and is intended only for > the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not > disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender > immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and > delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be > guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, > corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. > The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions > in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail > transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy > version. Crytek GmbH - http://www.crytek.com - Grüneburgweg 16-18, 60322 > Frankfurt - HRB77322 Amtsgericht Frankfurt a. Main- UST IdentNr.: > DE20432461 - Geschaeftsfuehrer: Avni Yerli, Cevat Yerli, Faruk Yerli > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Stefan Kubicek > ------------------------------------------- > keyvis digital imagery > Alfred Feierfeilstraße 3 > A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien > Phone: +43/699/12614231 > www.keyvis.at [email protected] > -- This email and its attachments are -- > --confidential and for the recipient only-- >
