Hi! I’m curious about converting a 3Ds Max workflow to Blender and would appreciate your ideas and input. This specific workflow is used for batch-rendering fabric options on roller blind systems. It is important that each material, which individually hold textures of each fabric type, can be colo…

Hi, I might not quite understand your needs in the first place, but, personally, I don’t see any troubles according to your current workflow you’ve just mentioned up above. [image] Tanya: 1 mesh for the rollerblind with multiple UVW map modifiers, which can be turned on and off for each type o…

Hi Sergey, Thank you for the detailed reply! I am indeed aware that the software is different and am not looking to replicate the exact interface in Blender, as long as the efficiency and outcome are the same the methods don’t have to match exactly. Mostly, I am looking into this for cost efficienc…

Always glad to help, Tanya. Almost forgot, here’s a tutorial on how to work with nodes in more efficient way: [Eight ways to organize nodes in BLENDER!]

You should take a look to geometry nodes. They are allowing to change data of scene at several levels of scene. You can use them to replace a mesh, replace UVs or replace material according to material ID. You can also use custom properties to drive specific type of properties like material ones. …

[image] Is there an easy way to swtich between multiple outfits? Basics & Interface You can swap out materials and geometry very easily with geometry nodes. Somewhere on this forum is an example I posted for someone making trainers/pack shots… something like this… [ima…

In search for a specific workflow for batch-rendering materials

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AlphaChannel September 20, 2023, 9:39pm 6

Have a look at my post here!

Hope that helps