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?

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!

Sunfire's Creations

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

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

Me too, thanks. Love it.

Sunfire's Creations

You're welcome :D

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

- grabs python -

Eternal Hobbyist

 

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

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.

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?

"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)

In theory, yes :)

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

Eternal Hobbyist

 

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

Sunfire's Creations

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!

"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)

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.

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)

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

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

"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)

You're welcome :)

thank you :)

kewl.  Thanks!

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drat , late to the party again ;)

I just posted mine on a differnt question.