What about using node groups? You can select a bunch of nodes and press Ctrl+G to make them into a group. You can then add the group from the Shift+A menu.
On 06/15/14 06:37, Johnny Matthews wrote: > Well the idea comes out of a smaller script that I'm working on (mainly for > myself at the moment) where I can create little "cuttings" of smaller > nodetree setups. Generally depending on the material I'm making there are > 2-5 nodes connected up in the same way or similar ways every time. (like a > glossy and a diffuse going into a mix controlled with a fresnel or layer > weight or a UVMap->Image->Diffuse) and I wanted a way to quickly insert > them. I hardcoded a few tree setups like this, but created a function to > interpret a JSON object that can more easily store the structure. Anyhow, > that is where the idea came from, but OML seems to be a much better way to > share full materials. > > Johnny Matthews > [email protected] > > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Piotr Arłukowicz <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear Johnny, >> >> take a look at this page: >> >> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Material/Online_Material_Library >> >> This plugin is available right off the bat if you are compiling Blender on >> your own, I'm unsure if it's in a standalone 'official' build. Nevertheless >> it seems to be working pretty well, so maybe you need to contact with the >> author. Your idea is good and it seems that quite decent amount of work is >> already done. I'd love to see that OML is growing and this can be a great >> community effort. Or maybe blendswap can allow to share materials in this >> way, dunno. >> >> regards >> Piotr >> >> >> >> Piotr Arłukowicz, PhD >> University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics >> Division of Artificial Intelligence, Wit Stwosz 57, 80-952 Gdańsk, room 121 >> phone: +48585232125, University home page: http://inf.ug.edu.pl/~piotao >> Also: Polish Blender Course: http://polskikursblendera.pl/ [PL] >> >> >> 2014-06-15 1:46 GMT+02:00 Johnny Matthews <[email protected]>: >> >>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Piotr Arłukowicz <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Online Material Library >>> >>> I had not >>> >>> Johnny Matthews >>> [email protected] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 -- -gandalf3 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
