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[Maya] Controlling a shader network?
So I'm going to be doing sprite renders in Mental Ray for a while and wrote some custom shader networks in the Hypershade. On one, I have 12 or so attributes around the network that need to be set per surface/asset. What I want to do is have an easy collection of them, so I don't need to dig through the hypershade each… -
Re: [Maya] Controlling a shader network?
It turns out that IPR acts the same as the viewport with the upstream connection in place. It only fully evaluates the network on a full render, which is still quick-ish. I did write a "switcheroo" script to swap all the extra attribute outputs from the material node into inputs, which gives a one-way ticket to each… -
Re: [Maya] Controlling a shader network?
I wonder if you could use Shader FX instead, and capture the viewport instead of render it? Then wysiwyg. Getting alpha would be a bit trickier, but you could use a shader boolean to switch to alpha-only mode, then combine the two captures into your preferred image format.
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