[SOLVED] Resume render with referenced materials

[SOLVED] Resume render with referenced materials#353876

By feynman - Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:58 pm

- Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:58 pm #353876

When resuming a render with referenced materials to obtain a higher SL - and some materials have been tweaked in the meantime - do these tweaks affect the result? Are the MXM parameters embedded in the MXI (hence its size)? Could not find an answer to that in the knowledgebase... Thanks!

Last edited by feynman on Fri Mar 16, 2012 9:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Re: Resume render with referenced materials#353883

By Bubbaloo - Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:29 pm

- Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:29 pm #353883

They will be read from the MXS file. So yes, if they are referenced, and they have been changed, they will be changed in the updated render.

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Re: Resume render with referenced materials#353885

By feynman - Fri Mar 16, 2012 9:10 pm

- Fri Mar 16, 2012 9:10 pm #353885

Cheers, now I know why there are some slight ghosting effects in resumed renders...

Re: [SOLVED] Resume render with referenced materials#353886

By Bubbaloo - Fri Mar 16, 2012 9:28 pm

- Fri Mar 16, 2012 9:28 pm #353886

It can make some cool effects...

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Re: [SOLVED] Resume render with referenced materials#353887

By feynman - Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:59 pm

- Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:59 pm #353887

In effect, that effect I got was not effectual for what I aimed for - cocked up all renders by messing about with them materials :o

Re: [SOLVED] Resume render with referenced materials#353888

By zdeno - Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:34 pm

- Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:34 pm #353888

Bubbaloo wrote:It can make some cool effects...

Yep .... it is great fun to name different textures with the same name on local paths in different rendernodes ...

Re: [SOLVED] Resume render with referenced materials#353889

By feynman - Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:06 am

- Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:06 am #353889

Agree. And - even more fun can be had working with triangle groups ;) If only the manual would state what "recalculate" does on triangle groups. And - how to select the ones one wants to select. But, well, one can't have it all...