That’s exactly our experience. My gut feeling is the use of dotXSI files as material libraries indicates it was a quickly implemented feature to satisfy a special projects customer and not much more than that.
I had to write a database driven system to manage and version our material libraries in the scenes as we had a ton of dependencies. I use custom properties to store the version info so when a scene is opened the triggered event knows what to replace with a few simple queries. Not perfect by any stretch, but more effective than what came out of the box. Matt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Wuijster Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 2:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: external material libraries..... Hi, Do people use external material libraries a lot? We tried them on a (now finished) project, but had some weird issues along the way; Objects loosing materials and rendering the default gray material, tons of non-used materials that magically appeard between sessions in scenes etc. In the end we made everything local again to fight the deadline. Any thoughts, tips on this? -- cheers! Rob Wuijster E [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> \/-------------\/----------------\/
