[Bf-committers] Materials Library for Blender

[Jürgen Herrmann]

Hmm... For cycles I would rather store the material nodes and their connection state in some sort of XML file.
The problem with staying in sync with features can be avoided by adding the blender version to the material file. 
I think we won't remove features from cycles in the future, we rather add them.
Material setups and node groups could also be saved by using a part of the blend file code... 
Together with a decent library interface in blender and some meta data this would be very cool.
We could ship some example materials but we shouldn't ship a whole library at release.
An online service might be cool but I would rather support a "download and import to lib manually" procedure.

/Jürgen

Am 15.06.2013 um 17:37 schrieb Silvermindyarr <silvermindyarr at gmail.com>:

> I thought I heard of someone working on an asset library already. It might
> be worth talking to them to see it's state. An asset library has been
> something that has been asked for for a while now :) I like the Idea of
> one. It might be good to have as an add-on while in it's early stages. I
> agree with blend files being used.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> THere are a lot of little presets we could have. For example in colors
>> we could have a pulldown list of things like glass, water, gold, etc.
>> 
>> A bit off topic but as a photographer I adjust the color balance to
>> get colors to come out right. Sometimes when matching photo/film to
>> blender I need the lamps to have a set color temperature but I can
>> find no info on how to set this. It would be a great preset in the
>> lights.
>> 
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