[Bf-committers] Materials Library for Blender

[Jürgen Herrmann]

Hmm... Drag and drop is a good idea too ;)
Maybe it is time to write down proposals somewhere and discuss these later to get a defined proposal package, then we can start to plan for implementation.
Otherwise this will get really messy with all these proposals an discussion mixup ...
I think we are all aware of the fact that, unfortunately, it will be impossible to meet the wishes of all users.



Am 16.06.2013 um 20:18 schrieb Silvermindyarr <silvermindyarr at gmail.com>:

> This asset browser definitely needs it's own panel with drag N drop as an
> option. There have been a number of mockups in the past, especially on
> blenderstorm.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Jürgen Herrmann <shadowrom at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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