[Bf-taskforce25] Materials and Textures management.

[Nathan Vegdahl]

    IMO the materials and textures library views you have there
shouldn't be in the material buttons, but rather should be some kind
of separate generic data-browse window type.  Then the user could
filter to see only materials or textures if they so desired.  In this
way the user can use the same interface for all kinds of data
management and browsing, rather than having similar interfaces
duplicated all over the place.

   I'm not keen on the tabs for the different renderers.  At the
moment 2.5 doesn't have integration with any external renderers
anyway, but even if it did then IMO the material panel should simply
reflect the currently selected renderer.

    I do like the idea of actually being able to see at-a-glance all
materials used on a single object.  That would be very useful.

--Nathan V

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Eclectiel L<eclect25 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >From Mirai Warren:
>> As I understand it, your additions--besides the what is in the
>> current panel--can be collapsed/hidden?
>
> Yes, the idea would be to be able to arrange the layout in different ways.
> Here is a PDF with some examples:
> http://www.4shared.com/get/111981231/592e752e/materials_area_V2_different_layouts.html
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eclectiel.
>
>
>
>
>>----- Original Message ----
>>From: Mirai Warren <the.future.comes.mw at gmail.com>
>>To: The Blender 2.5 TaskForce <bf-taskforce25 at blender.org>
>>Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 4:57:43 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Bf-taskforce25] Materials and Textures management.
>>
>>
> I like this a lot and could definitely see using it.  As I understand
>>it, your additions--besides the what is in the current panel--can be
>>collapsed/hidden?
>>
>>On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Eclectiel L<eclect25 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> PDF version of the last one with the adjustments:
>>> http://www.4shared.com/get/111622700/aa9cd10a/materials_area_V2_adjustments.html
>>>
>>> (If it has any problem let me know.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Eclectiel.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: joe <joeedh at gmail.com>
>>> To: The Blender 2.5 TaskForce <bf-taskforce25 at blender.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 2:39:30 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Bf-taskforce25] Materials and Textures management.
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Eclectiel L<eclect25 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No problem, next time I'll try a PDF, or divide it into smaller pages.
>>>>
>>>> Eclectiel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>> From: joe <joeedh at gmail.com>
>>>> To: The Blender 2.5 TaskForce <bf-taskforce25 at blender.org>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 1:50:20 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Bf-taskforce25] Materials and Textures management.
>>>>
>>>>>Can you split it into pages, or better yet make a PDF?
>>>>>
>>>>>Joe
>>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Eclectiel L<eclect25 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Some adjustments to the proposed Materials/Textures workflow to
>>>> make it more clear and straightforward. Solving some problems
>>>> in the previous proposal:
>>>> http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4328/materialsareav2adjustme.png
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Eclectiel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>----- Original Message ----
>>>>>From: Eclectiel L <eclect25 at yahoo.com>
>>>>>To: bf-taskforce25 at blender.org
>>>>>Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 4:01:35 PM
>>>>>Subject: [Bf-taskforce25] Materials and Textures management.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>From Brecht:
>>>>>> Though some things do definitely require an extra level in the
>>>>>> hierarchy, in particular materials, textures, bones and particle
>>>>>> systems.
>>>>>....
>>>>>> It would be interesting to see mockups for these cases too
>>>>>> (supporting unlimited number of materials/textures, even though they are
>>>>>> limited now, this is likely to change).
>>>>>....
>>>>>
>>>>>Made an attempt for Materials and Textures management. Here
>>>>>are some mockups:
>>>>>
>>>>>Page 1:
>>>>>http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/1619/materialsareav2page1.png
>>>>>
>>>>>Page 2:
>>>>>http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/546/materialsareav2page2.png
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I see materials and textures as something separated from
>>>>>objects, they are there either they are assigned to an object or not, that's
>>>>>one of the reasons why I chose a separate area, while keeping in the
>>>>>Properties editor the relationship between materials and the materials IDs of
>>>>>the selected object. And also the Properties editor started to need room for
>>>>>what I wanted to achieve.
>>>>>
>>>>>Even though the mockups are themed similar to the actual 2.5 look,
>>>>>this proposal is mostly intended to show functionality, not much
>>>>>the final aspect.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>>Eclectiel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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