Thanks Matt. I dropped the idea using references inside of references. I did some test with a ref mat lib and used that material on partitions instead, where the ref models are in. I noticed a funky behavior as you described it. On some frames the default scene material was used instead of the assigned ref mat.
sven From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Lind Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 11:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Referenced mat libs inside of ref models? 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
