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Subject: Looking for a Script to mass change shader rates on a figure

Khai opened this issue on Mar 24, 2009 · 22 posts

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Khai ( ) posted Tue, 24 March 2009 at 2:00 PM · edited Mon, 11 November 2024 at 8:48 PM

can someone please be a very cool person and create a script to change a figures default shading rate from the default .2 to an inputted value?

Sunfire ( ) posted Tue, 24 March 2009 at 2:06 PM

I second the request for such a script. Going in by hand and changing the shading rate on all the actors on a big busy scean is more daunting than the creating of the scene!

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semidieu ( ) posted Tue, 24 March 2009 at 2:39 PM

file_427054.txt

Like this ?

It applies the entered value on all figures and props in the scene.

Rename the script as SetShadingRate.py (you must change the extension)l

Khai ( ) posted Tue, 24 March 2009 at 2:53 PM

I owe you one.. that works perfectly! thanks! :)

Sunfire ( ) posted Tue, 24 March 2009 at 2:58 PM

Me too, thanks. Love it.

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semidieu ( ) posted Tue, 24 March 2009 at 3:04 PM

You're welcome :D

infinity10 ( ) posted Tue, 24 March 2009 at 10:22 PM

Crikey, you mean the shading rate is for individual scene components, and not the whole scene ?! I didn't know that ..

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Khai ( ) posted Tue, 24 March 2009 at 11:10 PM

as well as. the Great BagginsBill pointed us at it.

semidieu ( ) posted Wed, 25 March 2009 at 5:30 AM

The value you set in the Render Settings is the value really used with the FireFly render engine. But if this value is lower than the one in the actor, it will use the actor's minimum shading rate.

So reducing the values in the actors and props allows to use even lower values in the FireFly render settings.

IsaoShi ( ) posted Wed, 25 March 2009 at 9:50 AM

Or increasing the shading rate for all actors apart from the critical ones in your scene should allow for faster renders... n'est ce pas?

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semidieu ( ) posted Wed, 25 March 2009 at 11:07 AM

In theory, yes :)

infinity10 ( ) posted Wed, 25 March 2009 at 12:34 PM

Geewhiz... I learned some things here which explain A LOT of my rendering results. Honestly did not know about these until just now.

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Sunfire ( ) posted Wed, 25 March 2009 at 1:15 PM

Khai and I are just passing on what we learned from BagginsBill, and are glad to do so. :)

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IsaoShi ( ) posted Wed, 25 March 2009 at 3:54 PM · edited Wed, 25 March 2009 at 3:55 PM

file_427120.txt

I wanted a script that applied a chosen shading rate to a selected actor, figure, or the whole scene.

So I stitched together this script, based on SVDL's TextureFilter dialogue and the code that semidieu gave us above.

I'm not yet clever enough in Python Widgets to combine the two dialogues into a single screen. The script first asks you for a shading rate value, then for what you want to apply it to.

If someone wants to tidy it up by combining the two dialogues, please feel free!

As before, change the file extension from .txt to .py after download.

(edit) I just realised I have not yet tested this on a figure... I'll do that now!

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semidieu ( ) posted Thu, 26 March 2009 at 2:15 PM

Hi!

Thanks for the edited version! Instead of doing like this, you should 'simply' ask if you want to apply to all or only to the currently selected figure or actor.

IsaoShi ( ) posted Thu, 26 March 2009 at 2:50 PM

Thanks for the advice, semidieu. I know what you mean, but I don't know enough about Python coding to do it myself.

I could probably find bits and pieces from other scripts to tack together, but I wouldn't know how to write them myself.

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

semidieu ( ) posted Thu, 26 March 2009 at 3:04 PM

file_427187.txt

Here is a version with the choice to apply to the current figure/prop or to all actors/props.

IsaoShi ( ) posted Tue, 31 March 2009 at 3:05 PM

oops... forgot to say thanks for the new version. :O)

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