currently it doesn't work with regular Maya Instance because of a very old bug in the plugin,
but it can work with regular meshes (no instance)
Basicaly you only have to change the
Bake ID to 1 and set a different RandomSeed for each mesh, then randomColor node will work (setting Bake ID to 1 is to workaround another bug in the plugin, it's a way to force the plugin to export the RandomSeed value)
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Here is an example scene, the spheres are different objects (no instance) using the same material
RandomColorNodeForNonInstance.zip- (62.31 KiB) Downloaded 365 times
As it can be tedious to setup lot of meshes, I made this little python script for that:
- utilForRandomColor.zip
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# For all meshes found in the selected hierarchies this script set octBakGr to 1 and set randColorSeed to a number based on selection order.
# This is useful to make the random color node works with non-instance meshes.
import maya.cmds as cmd
meshes = cmd.listRelatives(cmd.ls(sl= True, visible=True) , path=True, type="mesh", allDescendents=True, ni=True)
if meshes:
i = 0
for mesh in meshes:
cmd.setAttr( mesh+".octBakGrId", 1 )
cmd.setAttr( mesh+".octRandomSeed", i)
i=i+1
Just select the meshes (or the top hierachy) that you want to use randomColor node with and execute this python script in a python tab.
