https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same-arnold/m-p/9896600#M5930 <LI-CODE lang="general">This is a very basic question, but I really can't find any answer to this.. I have a lot of objects that have the same Arnold toon shader applied to them and I only want to change the color for each object without having to make a new material for each of them. With normal C4D Materials you can just set the color input to "display color" in the material tab and choose the color you like in the objects "Basic&gt; Display Color" setting from the object manager. Arnold's materials don't have the "display color" option though. Is there any way to achieve this? Creating 200 different materials just for different colors is kind of a pain...</LI-CODE><P>This is a question from the <A href="https://answers.arnoldrenderer.com/questions/17404/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold C4D forum</A> and has been answered.</P><P>My question is how to do this in Maya?</P> Thu, 26 Nov 2020 08:18:12 GMT g2m.agent 2020-11-26T08:18:12Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same-arnold/m-p/9896600#M5930 <LI-CODE lang="general">This is a very basic question, but I really can't find any answer to this.. I have a lot of objects that have the same Arnold toon shader applied to them and I only want to change the color for each object without having to make a new material for each of them. With normal C4D Materials you can just set the color input to "display color" in the material tab and choose the color you like in the objects "Basic&gt; Display Color" setting from the object manager. Arnold's materials don't have the "display color" option though. Is there any way to achieve this? Creating 200 different materials just for different colors is kind of a pain...</LI-CODE><P>This is a question from the <A href="https://answers.arnoldrenderer.com/questions/17404/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold C4D forum</A> and has been answered.</P><P>My question is how to do this in Maya?</P> Thu, 26 Nov 2020 08:18:12 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same-arnold/m-p/9896600#M5930 g2m.agent 2020-11-26T08:18:12Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same-arnold/m-p/9897038#M5931 <P>Use the color jitter shader.</P> Thu, 26 Nov 2020 11:53:56 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same-arnold/m-p/9897038#M5931 Stephen.Blair 2020-11-26T11:53:56Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same-arnold/m-p/9897056#M5932 <P>It is a random color and there are repetitions. The problems mentioned above are two different things.</P> Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:02:01 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same-arnold/m-p/9897056#M5932 g2m.agent 2020-11-26T12:02:01Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same-arnold/m-p/9897105#M5933 <P>you're right</P> Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:33:13 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same-arnold/m-p/9897105#M5933 g2m.agent 2020-11-26T12:33:13Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same-arnold/m-p/9898416#M5934 <P>I found that aiColorJitter did not solve my problem 100%.</P><P><BR />This is my scene:<BR />Multiple cubes have vertex colors and multiple "colorSet". I connected one of them to the Arnold shader as shown below.<BR />pCubeShape.currentColorSet -&gt; aiUserDataColor -&gt; aiColorJitter -&gt; aiStandardSurface.baseColor</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="maya_pYVZq0hrN7.png" style="width: 569px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/849203iD0883937C51CE5DE/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="maya_pYVZq0hrN7.png" alt="maya_pYVZq0hrN7.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="maya_c4qQBzG9rN.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/849204iB83D6C0FCEA55B2D/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="maya_c4qQBzG9rN.png" alt="maya_c4qQBzG9rN.png" /></span></P><P><BR />This can indeed show the vertex color of each cube. But when the first cube (that is, the cube connected to aiUserDataColor) switches the "colorSet", the others also switch. And other cubes must have the same "colorSet" name.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="maya_A3LohjlEVC.png" style="width: 423px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/849205i4518FB0392B3AD50/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="maya_A3LohjlEVC.png" alt="maya_A3LohjlEVC.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="maya_CRspAYqvV5.png" style="width: 337px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/849206i272BF6877FEB3A14/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="maya_CRspAYqvV5.png" alt="maya_CRspAYqvV5.png" /></span></P><P><BR />Is there a way to switch "colorSet" independently for each cube?</P> Fri, 27 Nov 2020 02:28:05 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/different-colors-on-different-materials-with-same-arnold/m-p/9898416#M5934 g2m.agent 2020-11-27T02:28:05Z