[Bf-committers] More procedural textures?

[Robert Wenzlaff (AB8TD)]

On Monday 20 November 2006 19:11, Doug Olllivier wrote:
>Robin Allen wrote:
>> Is there any reason why Blender has so few procedural textures? I was 
>> thinking of coding some, taking some ideas from 3ds max, but if 
>> there's anything I should know (waiting for a refactor, etc) please 
>> tell me before I get started.
>
> Not that it directly answers your question, but we need lots more
> "man-made" textures in procedural.  like bricks, pannels, tiles...  (i
> know there is a plugin for bricks)

What we need is a plug-in system that makes the whether the texture is a 
plug-in or a built-in superfluous (ie; the user can't tell the difference).  
I don't think there's a noticable performance hit, so we just need to smooth 
out the UI so plugins in the defined plug-in directory look like builtins.  

Eventually, all except the most basic textures could be plugins allowing the 
user to orgainize /extend the library as he/she likes.  (Subdirectories in 
the plug-in directory would be intermediate menu items, etc).


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