Different material on an instance

[hopbin9]

Hi,

How can I apply a different material on an instance of an object. The manual talks about overriding properties, but doesn't seem to give an example.

I have two materials in my SHOP. Both objects are rendering with the first assigned to the source object. The instance, I can't seem to figure out how to apply the other material.

Thanks,

[lukeiamyourfather]

Do you want to modify a shader depending on the instance or do you want to use two completely different shaders for the instances?

[symek]

As always in Houdini is all about wrangling attributes. See example for varying materials per instance. As Luke mentioned quite often you want to apply one material for all instances and vary only attributes of that. I's usually more efficient approach, then sending a number of materials to ifd file.

hth,

skk.

instance_mat.hipnc.zip

Edited February 10, 2011 by SYmek

[hopbin9]

I have to do both cases actually.

The object is a television set, and there are many sets each showing a different texture file, but there are two different colored styles of TVs. They are all the same geometry.

So I'm instancing them but they all have the same image and are the same color.

Thanks for the example file. I think I get how you did it, but will this only work with point instancing?

[hopbin9]

*never mind*

I just saw how the example changes the current material.

Nice

Edited February 11, 2011 by hopbin9

[hopbin9]

Thanks so much for the help.

I got it all working. I totally understand now.

[symek]

cheers

skk.