setting shape instance without the instances material?

[Lord Futzi Voldemort]

Hi, I´m trying to set the shape of my particles to the shape of a polymesh in my scene but render the pointcloud´s material.
So far I´ve had no luck. Is it possible at all? I´m using the Instance Shape node plugged directly in the shape port of an Emit from Position compound. The pointcloud always renders with the material of the instanced geometry. Any idea?

Achim

[owei]

Hi Achim..!

Unfortunately that´s not possible, as far as I know. Whereas an instance is just a representation of an object/model with all it´s properties, giving a new material to it is not possible, because the material is a property of your instance-root-object. But perhaps you could provide a group of objects with different materials as your instance source, and use the instance ID for choosing a certain material...just a thought ;)

lg
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[Tekano]

It is possible if you are just wanting each particles color to transfer over to the instance objects. plug the attribute>color node into the material of the instance master shape. Now whatever color each particle is set to - each instance gets it

[owei]

@Tekano
Wow, that´s cool..! That way you can´t change the material(what the question was...), but via self made parameters, such as scalar transparency for example and using an "attribute scalar" node plugged into the material node, you can manipulate many parameters of the material..I´ve just tried it..works fine ;)

[origin]

You can also use attribute integer (by IDs) color_multi_switch and mix_8colors to transfer diffrent materials to diffrent particles. Its abit unclean and not-render friendly but works.

[Lord Futzi Voldemort]

Hi,
thanks for your replies. It´s not exactly what I was looking for, but it´s enough to build a workaround. Thanks again for being helpful.

Achim