Hello there, just a heads up that this kind of feature might be soon implemented in the Blender Cloud as well. I'll try to connect directly in the coming weeks if you are interested.
Regards, Francesco On June 16, 2014 at 9:02:05 AM, gandalf3 ([email protected]) wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
