BTW I also do a lot of screen shots to share online so not rendering is not much of a factor and there is a way to render them in cycles, if you really want to using a image controlled my a vector transform and a mapping node.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Knapp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Chris Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry to interject here, but is there any need for this? >> >> I create matcap materials a lot and it is easily done by adding a matcap >> image mapped to normals instead of UVs. The built in scene matcaps are >> nice >> for a simple, quick visualisation tool but since they don't render there >> is >> little point to customising them. >> >> Or am I missing something? What purpose do you see it fulfilling? >> >> Regards, >> Chris Lee > > > I use them mostly for sculpting. Sometime I change the color just because > I am an artist and like new colors. :-) > But to be more practical, I change them because different ones show > different sorts of details in the model as I work. Sometimes I change the > color because I need more contrast with the background or with other parts > of the model. It is true that what we have is often good enough but I have > found only one that I really like and that is the cherry red with a rough > surface. I would like to have more because there might be better ones and I > like to play with them as well as perhaps having more that just one good > one for my purpose. > > -- > Douglas E Knapp > > -- Douglas E Knapp Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies with open source software! http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer: http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm Please link to me and trade links with me! Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project. http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/ _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
