[Bf-committers] Feature idea: material assigment for modifiers

Campbell Barton ideasman42 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 17:14:03 CET 2011


On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Bassam Kurdali
<bkurdali at freefactory.org> wrote:
>  I spoke with Campbell on irc, and he suggested I mail this to the list
> as a general proposal. It came up from me wanting a different material
> assignment for the inner and outer faces of a solidify modifier (as
> opposed to just the rim).
>
>  Campbell suggested that hacking this in would be easy but a bit ugly;
> he proposed that a more generalized feature that would work for any
> modifier, in a consistent way, would be better. Indeed I could easily
> imagine this being desirable for at least:
>
> Solidify (currently just rim, but also inner outer)
> Mirror
> Bevel
> Array
> Boolean (already works by inheriting original materials?)
>
> List of concerns:
>
> -Blender does not guarantee material order is the same (e.g. when
> joining)
> -a way to modify materials used might not work reliably
> -doing it only for Solidify feels arbitrary, since it might be useful
> anytime you generate new faces-a more general way would be better (hence
> this proposal)
> -referencing material by index is "crappy and likely to break"
> -referencing directly could work, with the restriction that it exists in
> the mesh/object (is this a certain restriction? could it just be there
> in the scene?)
> -referencing the materials using an offset rather than index, so you can
> have multiple materials assigned to the mesh, and offset them for
> generated faces.
> -an imperfect but general known way that works for all modifiers would
> be acceptable.
>
> I think I've covered everything we talked about; My current need is only
> for solidify (rigged thin sheets with a requirement to have something
> only printed on one side)- and I can work around this in multiple ways,
> so no real pressure. A more general solution would be more useful/
> future proof.
>
> cheers
> Bassam
>
> PS- whatever the choice, the assignment, whether by material, index, or
> index offset should be visible in the modifier panel; just a checkbox
> would be ultimately ugly, since (other than tooltips) there would be no
> user visible/adjustable way of selecting the required material. (you can
> do so for indexes in the material properties by putting the right
> materials in the right slots, but this feels quite hidden)

Hi Bassam, Ton is ok with using a material index offset for modifiers,
will try add to solidify today.


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