[Bf-committers] Materials Library for Blender

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

That's a nice test :)

Having collections of materials share one .blend is just very practical anyway, allows the maintainer to update and test efficiently too.

The way how I envision it to work is that you can create a regular .blend with all the assets in it (so you can review them, edit, render, etc). And an export option to only save out the minimal data as needed.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
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On 16 Jun, 2013, at 17:38, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:

> In another discussion about using .blend files for this type of thing,
> the big size of .blend files came up, which can be easily 400 kb even
> with a single cube in it. This is because it also saves the user
> interface and some other things which aren't needed here. For a
> library.blend with many datablocks in it the overhead doesn't matter
> as much, but if there are many files or some online material library
> it could be useful.
> 
> I did a little experiment to see how small you could get a .blend file
> with a single datablock in it.  By stripping all datablocks except
> some specified types, stripping unused DNA data, and using gzip
> compression, we can store a simple node material in 4.4 kb. Note 4 kb
> is the minimum file size on many file systems.
> 
> Script strip_blend.py:
> http://www.pasteall.org/43203/python
> 
> Example terminal output:
> http://www.pasteall.org/43212
> http://www.pasteall.org/43211
> 
> 
> Brecht.
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