Merge Sops with different material

Beginners
1

I want to merge Sops, that have different colors/materials as well as they are based in different COMPs. But as soon as I merge several of them together in die parent TOP it tells me I cannot us different materials. How can I get around this?
Since I am just starting the geometry I still coundnt find a solution and would be happy for help. Please also see my testfilemerge_Sops.tox (2.3 KB)

2

The easiest way is to not merge the Sops but to have a geometry for each material. After that you point the render to different geometry to group it.

3

I actually tried that also, but they dont show up in the render.
geo_Sops.tox (2.3 KB)

4

You have to move your camera a bit. The geometries are located outside the camera’s current view. To see the 3 circles I had to set the Camera’s tz parameter to 89

cheers
Markus

5

ah! ok, thanks.
And I am struggling to make the spheres transparent. I set th the constantMaterial alpha of it, but it only gets darker. I want the objects to be half transparent. I also cannot find any setting in the geo for that. How would this work in TD?

6

Hello,
To late for the first answer…
For the second, if you activate blending in the material, the material have transparency