Hello,
I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I’m trying to figure out a way to send a message to another user, specifically a moderator. I’m trying to reach out to a user named Baardaap about a very old locked thread of his but I can’t seem to find any way to send a DM or mod message. Is there a good way I could get in touch with him on this forum?
Hi,
this might be a missing permission for new accounts like yours.
Maybe @Baardaap sees this and send you a DM instead.
Best,
Thomas
hi. what thread is it about?
Sorry thomas, should have replied the first post…
It’s this one:
Would you be able to share or explain that “quick hack” you made to add an input onto an Image Texture node? I’m encountering the exact same issue you did of the conflated Image + Mapping operations that the node does, and having access to what you did in this thread would solve a huge problem for me in a project I’m working on.
That ‘quick hack’ was really not a good way to go about it…
I don’t have the code anymore. I remember I added an extra socket to the imagetexure node, and when the node was evaluated I checked if another imagetexture node was attached to it and then used the image from that.
It really was an ugly hack. I’m not even sure it worked on anything other than cycles cpu? It was also only meant as a ‘proof of concept’.
I think blender now has an ImageData datablock, so maybe it would be time to revisit this and do the the right way…
Got it, thanks anyways. I’ve been having a lot of trouble with this so I’ve been kinda throwing anything at the wall to see if something might stick.
One trick that sortof works is to embed an image texture inside a nodegroup ( just add all the inputs/outputs of the image texture node as inputs/outputs of the group) and then use that nodegroup everywhere in your material.
That way you can change the image in a single location.
It’s not perfect, but it can make managing those types of materials easier.