XSI Flat Shading
polycounter lvl 11
Looking for a alternative of Max's 'Flat Shaded' view, in XSI? Anyone know if it exists without resorting to adjusting the meshes 'discontinuity' value or applying a constant material.
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If you're looking for an alternative to the constant material, switching the viewport to constant or texture decal should do the trick (depending if you have a texture of not). If you're looking for the faceted look similar to this, lower the discontinuity to 0 or edit the user normals so that they are aligned to the polygons.
http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/poly_shading_SettingUserNormalsonPolygonMeshes.htm#Rcc77414
It's just a pain having to keep going to the approximation menu in between modeling and rendering, although i suppose it would be easy enough to script it to toggle the 'discontinuity angle' from 2 different values, but i nothing about scripting.
Save it as something like ''flat_shading.vbs"
Make another one that says only: Save it as something like "restore_shading.vbs"
Switch to the Palette and Script Toolbar (the paint-palette icon on the lower left), then drag and drop the two .vbs files there. Clicking them will toggle the discontinuity angle.
Interesting approach.