Forum: Carrara


Subject: Need help reassigning shading domains

mosk opened this issue on Mar 05, 2010 · 13 posts


mosk posted Fri, 05 March 2010 at 10:38 AM

Note - I've posted this on the DAZ forums as well.  Not sure if that violates Forum etiquette.  If so, please just skip over this.  If not - would be happy to get some help wherever i can find it.

I have several chess pieces with the same shading domains - base, foot, column, neck, and head. The shading domains have been added in different order for each piece, and this apparently messes things up when I try to use a layers list for my shader. The pieces all end up with the same collection of colors / shaders, but one might have a green base, another a green head, and a third a green column.

Is there a way to re-order the shading domains for an object?
If I simply assign the correct layer list shaders to the Bishop in the shading room, it messes up my queen. If I then go and fix the queen the same way, it jumbles things up for the bijhop again.

In the Model Room, under the Global Tab, you can add and delete Shading domains but there doesn't seem to be any way to reorder the list - I want to set up each piece in the same order and see if that fixes things.

Any help would be appreciated.

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