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Is there a reliable source of preset materials for XSI anywhere on the web?
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Thanks for the links. The quantity is pretty limited and the shaders themselves seem very specific. I guess what I was looking for was more basic: a set of presets for metals, glass, concrete, plaster, etc. that get you in the ballpark and let you customize to your heart’s content.
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In XSI 5.x it was available: View > Toolbars > [B]Shader Presets[/B]
[I] In XSI 6.x that command is unfortunately gone from this menue.[/I]
[I]EDIT: That is wrong![/I]
To get that anyway in SIX you have two options:
If you have two monitors you can switch the Layout:
View > Layouts > Dual Views and Shelfs
On the right screen on top there is the panel [B]material presets
[/B]
If not you can link this view command to a shortcut:
File > Keyboard Mapping…
If you have not yet, create a New User Key Map
Then choose from the Group: View Shortcuts | [B]Shader Presets[/B] and link it to a key
OK.
Maybe this is a kind of a mat library that you are looking for…
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Great tip! Thanks a lot. I’ll check it out.
(I wonder why they buried it in XSI 6? Hope it’s not a sign of things to come in 7.)
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Marcel, in 6.5, the presets aren’t as deeply buried as you described. They’re under View/Toolbars/Material Presets.
Thanks for pointing me in the general direction.
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[quote=IslandDreamer;8417]Marcel, in 6.5, the presets aren’t as deeply buried as you described. They’re under View/Toolbars/Material Presets.
Thanks for pointing me in the general direction.
You are right!
That is really strange: for me it was definitively not here! View > Toolbars
I checked that out on another workstation and it was ok there.
So I cleanded up my user directory from several crash temp files and now it works
correct for me too. Somewhere and -how it was killed from my menu bar.
Sorry for the misinformation.
But you can link it to a shortcut anyway ... haha!
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And so, the pupil becomes the teacher! :D
Glad I could be of assistance!
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