[Bf-committers] Materials Library for Blender

[Jürgen Herrmann]

The question is what does it take to implement an interface for saving material presets in a stripped blend file format?
There should be a save and load function in the material panel and a decent, easy to use library for these.
I personally like how this is done in Vue by e-on. (Vue 11 pioneer is free : http://www.cornucopia3d.com/products/vue/vue_11_pioneer/ )

But we could do even better by adding meta data into the "material files" and maintain a simple library db within the presets folder of the users machine.


Am 16.06.2013 um 17:38 schrieb Brecht Van Lommel <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be>:

> 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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