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 <[email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]>: > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
