Maya user in XSI :-)) newbiequest

[trailerpark]

select the object,and on the right task bar _GET_ then press the _material button, and pick a material. hope this helps

[GavinG]

You select the object then go to Get> Material
..if i understand you correctly



Gav

[bjoern]

nop that i now.
I have already a material in my rendertree.

But it is with no geometry connected,
Now i want to connect it with this material
in my rendertree???.....

The way "Get> Material" assaigned a new material to my geometry. And i don't want that.
sorry for this engl

regards
bjoern

[Atyss]

Ok you are thinking in Maya terms!

There is no Hypershade in XSI, where you have a unified shader graph of the entire scene. Materials in XSI are always shaders attached to something. They can't exist without being attached. When you do a Get > Material, you are attaching a material to an object.

However, your case is not hopeless. You can apply materials not only on geometric objects, but also on groups, layers and partitions. As soon as you make an object member of the group (simply by drag-n-drop in the Explorer, for example), the member inherits the group material. Remove the object from the group will restore the object's material on the object.

An important concept here is hierarchy. In XSI this is how the software works. Everything has a level of precedence. So you can put properties and overrides on the entity that has more precedence, and everything below it will inherit those. This order is (from the less important to more important):
-object
-branch
-group
-layer
-partition

Although you can't see everything in the scene at one, playing with this concept will allow you to achieve what you are currently looking for.


Cheers
Bernard

[bjoern]

great instructions.

thx
bjoern

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