[Bf-funboard] Matcap Viewport - possibility to choose viewport matcap for each material

[Adam Preisler]

Campbell: I already have real cycles materials on the model, but most of
the time I spend in the viewport modelling and I would like to assign
different matcaps to different parts of the body (bones, muscles, teeth).
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Pawel: As you can see in one of the pictures I render in cycles, not GLSL,
therefore I would have to switch between materials to have custom matcaps
everytime I want to render/model.
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Matcaps are great though, and I think it would greatly enhance the opengl
viewport if you can have the steel matcap for steel material for example.
Or the bright green one for tree leaves, golden one for gold material,
shiny coloured ones for plastics, the first two for car paints, brownish
one for mud or wood and so on. Maybe even ability to blend between matcap
shading and mapped textures.

I still think there should be a classic matcap-overrides-all setting for
modelling, but I would love to be able to set matcaps per material the way
I set viewport color and viewport specular color for example.

2015-04-30 11:29 GMT+02:00 Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>:

> Do you feel it would be "improper use", if it were just per object? I do
> sometimes find myself wanting to sculpt an arm onto a body and two colors
> would be nice.
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The purpose of matcaps is to be able to bypass the material system and
> > have a quick view of your objects with preset materials.
> >
> > If you're at the point where you care about the different matcaps per
> > object, this is probably the point where you should start using real
> > materials anyway.
> >
> > While it could be handy sometimes -- if this is added, users will then
> > want to render the result (which is making it a second material
> > system).
> > Also  and if you want to change matcaps its no longer a quick switch
> > in the viewport.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Adam Preisler <adam at preisler.me> wrote:
> > > Dear blenderers!
> > >
> > > I was wondering if being able to set different matcaps for materials
> > would
> > > be possible.
> > >
> > > Of course there would still be an option to override every material
> > OpenGL
> > > setting and use only one matcap material in viewport for clarity.
> > >
> > > I still think that it would greatly enhance the viewport experience.
> > >
> > >
> > > I am also adding 2 screenshots with gimped (photoshoped:)) viewport
> > matcaps
> > > on one of them.
> > >
> > > Matcap gimped viewport screenshot. Or - How it could possibly look:
> > > http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=87296
> > >
> > > Viewport without mapcaps now:
> > http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=87297
> > >
> > >
> > > Maybe even adding the possibility to create/add your own cubemaps?
> > >
> > > Have a nice rest of the weekend,
> > >
> > > AP
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