Use Material Style Sheets to apply material looks and Mantra render properties to Packed archives. Review SOHO and how it relates to Material Style Sheets. A few simple examples will be worked up from scratch covering the most used options of Material Style sheets.
We'll also look at the bottlecaps example. This was the very first use of Material Style Sheets by Fianna Wong and Jeff Wagner which uses a CVEX program shader to drive property overrides in turn to randomly select different texture maps to apply to the packed primitive bottle caps.
Finally we will create some standard Material Style Sheets on disk as JSON files for re-use on any scene geometry through Mantra ROPs and calling Mantra from the command line. This also includes how to pack up materials as JSON files so you don't have to include shaders inside the IFD file. Just call them. We will also look at the Mantra default properties which also is a material style sheet JSON file. Register here [sidefx.co]
