03-08-2014, 07:24 AM
I agree that having the ability to change the default material settings in two places is probably not the best idea. Upon thinking about it for a few minutes I think it would be best to take oort's first idea and include the ability to change all of the default materials parameters in the preferences. You could then "gray out" the appropriate boxes in the material properties window when you right-click the default material, just as the diffuse color is currently grayed out in the default texture now.
Then again, I suppose you don't need to gray out any of the settings windows in the material properties window you get when you right-click. It would be just that the settings are temporary. Permanent settings would have to be made in the preferences.
Of course, all of this is just thinking out loud and rambling without any idea of how difficult it would be to code any of these changes. I think it will be up to Micheus to decide what is possible and what is not.
Then again, I suppose you don't need to gray out any of the settings windows in the material properties window you get when you right-click. It would be just that the settings are temporary. Permanent settings would have to be made in the preferences.
Of course, all of this is just thinking out loud and rambling without any idea of how difficult it would be to code any of these changes. I think it will be up to Micheus to decide what is possible and what is not.