[Bf-funboard] Automatic Shader set-ups

Marc Dion marcdion1974 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 11 13:38:42 CET 2015


  Start with a blank scene, add the shaders you want and use Ctrl+u(Save
Startup File) to make this default.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Greg Zaal <gregzzmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> This has been wanted for a long time (https://developer.blender.org/D474);
> the main issue is the design of such a feature. Should these shader presets
> be built-in node groups? or like the other preset system? Or new shader
> nodes?
>
> If we eventually agree on that, then we have to agree on what presets to
> have - only diffuse mixed with glossy? What about fresnel in there? Should
> the fresnel use the fresnel node, or the layer weight node? Maybe we should
> also have a "thin glass" shader (transparent mixed with glossy and some
> back-facing math)? And a smoke and fire shader? The point is, where do we
> draw the line between common and useful, and useful but uncommon? We could
> have a list of 20 very useful presets, which would become just as hard to
> navigate as the current shader list.
>
> Let's not discuss the messy order of the shader list in this thread though,
> I'm working on a proposal for that and will start a new discussion when
> it's ready.
>
> And max undo was recently changed to 256 :)
> https://developer.blender.org/rBfa9e42b5 - would be curious to test if
> pumping it up to 2048 and purposfully trying to run out of memory will
> break stuff.
>
> On 11 February 2015 at 09:56, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I can't tell you the number of times I have added a cycles texture,
> changed
> > the shader to mixed and then changed the other two shaders in the list to
> > disuse and gloss. I am sure I am not alone in this huge waste of time. It
> > would no be so bad but for the fact that the shader pull-down list is
> never
> > is the same order and I am always sitting there searching through the
> list
> > looking fro that lost diffuse shader to click on.
> >
> > One click on kill!
> > I would be quite happy if this mix/difuse/glossy were the default
> setting.
> > Anyone disagree about this?
> > If that is a no go how about adding this setup to the list as what??
> Basic
> > material or something like that.
> > Thanks.
> > PS Would someone please change the max undo to 1024 from 64!! :-(
> >
> >
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