Material library

[ubiquity]

(09-16-2013 05:48 PM)oort Wrote:  Micheus,
To make this quick and easy (assuming it would be easy) you could improve on the File > Merge command.

You may have noticed the Wings3D Material Palettes (old YafaRay) on my old Oort Cloud Wings3D page. Those palettes were created before it was possible to keep materials in a file without the materials being assigned to an object. That is why there is an icosahedron in those .wings files. I never got around to deleting the object and enabling "Save Unused Materials" under the File drop down menu.

If it was possible to have more control over how File > Merge works, one could choose to only import materials. That way if someone has a .wings file with materials they want to use in another .wings file they could File > Merge and choose to only import the materials and avoid adding Views, Render Settings, Objects, etc..

Just a thought...
oort

I tried to get around this by creating a Materials_Library.wings file with a default cube and a number of saved, unassigned materials. Unfortunately, when I tried to merge this file into another Wings fell over so I had to abort the attempt. It would certainly be useful to have a library of materials and, for that matter, textures. A selective merge would be a good intermediate step.