The closest I've got to referencing materials is making compounds and updating them if I've made any changes. Not quite the same but handy.
Simon Reeves London, UK *[email protected] <[email protected]>* *www.simonreeves.com <http://www.simonreeves.com>* *www.analogstudio.co.uk <http://www.analogstudio.co.uk>* On 9 July 2014 22:39, Matt Lind <[email protected]> wrote: > We’re trying to use referenced materials right now. It’s rather hit or > miss. > > > > The referenced materials are actually a hack involving a dotXSI file which > stores the material and shader information, then having that applied to the > referenced models in the scene. Problem we’ve been encountering is > sometimes upon loading the scene, the reference material assignments are > lost as if they were never assigned in the first place. > > > > We don’t know what causes this problem, but it’s intermittent. Some > scenes work just fine, others have this problem regularly. > > > > I do not advise using referenced materials on 2011. > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sven Constable > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 09, 2014 2:40 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Referenced mat libs inside of ref models? > > > > Hi list, > > I'm currently working on a project with rather large assets including large > object counts and very heavy geo (CAD data), so I'm referencing a lot of > the models. Otherwise I would hit the 2GB scene size limit anyway and > also for flexibility I would like to keep it as separated as much as > possible. Thing is, we have only a few shaders that will be applied to > all the objects. So I'd also like to use a referenced mat lib for the > entire project and all the ref models inside it. That basically means two > levels of referencing ( a referenced model will use a ref mat lib). A > reference inside a reference. I never did that and I'm a bit concerned if this > could potencially produce problems. Does anyone used referenced models that > contained referenced mat libs? I'm on softimage2011 btw. > > Thanks, > > sven >
