Hi,

What i have is an instancer created by the Layout node inside Solaris, that scatters 50 or so different assets onto a point cloud. Each asset has the same one simple principled shader, but the shader is duplicated inside the heirarchy for each asset. Now, when i want to edit the material using an Edit Material Network node, or assign a new material to either the Prototypes primitive (hoping to change all the material in one step), or the Instancer itself, or the prototype´s Geometry prim, I either get an error message about "authoring to an instance Proxy not being allowed", or I get no error message, but the material assignment has no effect on the renders.

What is the correct way to change something about an instancer prototype?

Cheers,
Ivan

ivanmalek
What is the correct way to change something about an instancer prototype?

Answer by blakshep: https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/82073/#post-357488 [www.sidefx.com]