[Bf-modeling] bevel new face material

[Howard Trickey]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I believe it has to be an offset so an object with multiple materials
> get them properly remapped.
>
> For example if you have 3 materials and want new materials for each
> one of the faces when they are affected by the modifier: You create
> mat_1, mat_2, mat_3, mat_new_1, mat_new_2, mat_new_3 and set offset as
> 3.
>
>

Thanks Dalai.

But the premise there is that there is an "old" material that should be
mapped to a new one,
for each face, where the "old" material may differ per newly created face.
In the case of bevel, what is the "old" material?  I think the creator of
the bug did not want or
like the idea of using the "nearest" old face.

Cheers,
> Dalai
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>
> 2014-07-06 13:15 GMT-03:00 Howard Trickey <howard.trickey at gmail.com>:
> > I was working on this bug (really a feature request):
> > https://developer.blender.org/T34664
> >
> > I'm wondering: what is the best way to let the user specify the material?
> >
> > The solidify and wireframe modifiers use slider for "material index
> offset",
> > and use it to add to the mat_nr (slot number) of the nearby face to get
> the
> > material for the new face.
> >
> > I'm not quite getting the utility of specifying this as an offset. Why
> not
> > just an absolute slot number? With -1 meaning: use the current bevel
> > behavior of trying to assign the material from the nearest face (which is
> > sometimes ambiguous: some newly created faces are equidistant from
> original
> > faces)?
> >
> > I suppose ideal would be to have a better UI element to choose material,
> but
> > for the python binding I guess the parameter should be the integer slot
> # or
> > slot offset?
> >
> >
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