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Hello i have a quiestion maybe some one knows how to help me. I need to render a group of objets (30 tables) with a lot of materials each one, and i would like to make it the fastest and easy way, rendering and animation with the same table in the same position and then one frame for each material.

Outside Kray i have seen that i can make it with multiple "surf mixer" shader and enveloping then to make my table material change in each frame. Do you know a way to do something similar that kray will render?
Thank you very much[

That is a hard one. No idea how to do that. Only thing I can think of is maybe save object multi times for each surface applied and name it in a series and use a load on demand for each frame of animation. I may be way off of what you are trying to do.

vpii wrote:That is a hard one. No idea how to do that. Only thing I can think of is maybe save object multi times for each surface applied and name it in a series and use a load on demand for each frame of animation. I may be way off of what you are trying to do.

that would be a lot of work. 30 tables, saved with about 15 materials, i should have 450 objets to handle. With surface mixer i only have to save the surface preset with the multiple surface mixer applied, load one table, apply the surface to the table and hit F10

Yes it would be to much for sure. Wish I could be more of help. Was just throwing out ideas not really understanding what needed to be done. Good luck.

Here's an idea:
use multi switch Material together with Time info node (can be downloaded in db&w tools pack).

Thank you very much. is the multi switch node working in LW 9.6? I can´t see it in the the materials node. I guess its new in lightwave 10 or 11.

Regards

jotta wrote:Thank you very much. is the multi switch node working in LW 9.6? I can´t see it in the the materials node. I guess its new in lightwave 10 or 11.

Regards

It was most likely added in LW10 or 11, not sure.

Ok, multi-switch comes in LW 11. But when i use multi switch node, LW crash

Don´t crash with single switch. Multi switch its the problem

No, it isn´t multi switch the problem. When one of the materials have reflection blur it crash