[Bf-funboard] Default material, lamp, and camera types in .B.blend

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Robert,

Hrms... just defaulting the first Material in the list (which is  
alphabetically sorted) is not very nice.

Another one, is that 'add new' usually copies the current material,  
which is something that works quite well while working.

For a default .B.blend, we better provide a nice range of Materials,  
which have all basic types setup very well; 'metal', 'plastic',  
'envmap' for example. A user then just browses one of these defaults,  
and tweaks it. The Materials can can get a 'fake user' to make sure no  
Objects are needed to use it.

-Ton-



On Friday, Sep 26, 2003, at 16:33 Europe/Amsterdam, Robert Wenzlaff  
wrote:

> I played with this this morning and I got materials working, it  
> shouldn't be hard to extend it to Lamps and Cameras.  Due to their  
> nature, I don't think it's appropriate for Textures, (and might  
> already work if the default material has the default texture linked).
>
> I have it set up so that the first material saved in the .B.blend  
> file, becomes the default material  for "Add New".  This is more  
> important now that we have multiple shaders, as you can set the  
> default type.  If you like cameras with wide angle lenses and show  
> limits on, save one, etc.
>
> I read an article that went through many of the big commercial  
> renderers and said basically, "Maya' materials look like plastic.   
> Lightwave's look like metal...  But really this is all because of the  
> app' s default settings.  User's tweak things until they look good  
> enough.  If they start with metal, they'll end up looking at least a  
> little bit metally."    So let's make the laziness work for us.  If  
> you're doing a toon, save a .B.blend with a default toon shader...
>
> Thoughts?  Any other object types this would apply to?
>
>
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