[REQ] Complex Materials
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[REQ] Complex Materials
It would be nice to have a 'not so cumbersome way' to deal with complex materials. Such a powerful system deserve a better way to fine tuning them, without having to do a myriad of steps just to add two materials, let alone when you add multiple others. Perhaps a tree like system, where you can keep adding material types but showing only one.
Re: [REQ] Complex Materials
Hmm for people that use simple exporter applications that lack decent material editing functions it would be useful though I think time is better spent getting exporters to harness the power of the material editors built into the 3D applications.
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Re: [REQ] Complex Materials
Pardon me pixie, are you referring to the blend material in Indigo's GUI ? "Complex materials" is perhaps a C4D/Cindigo expression ?
Just to clarify, the "what" and the "where" are unclear to me...
Also and as an example, the Maya to Indigo exporter uses Maya's native "blend" material wich allows to stack an arbitrary number of materials each coming with its own transparency "blend" map. You'd like something akin in Indigo's GUI, is it ?
Just to clarify, the "what" and the "where" are unclear to me...
Also and as an example, the Maya to Indigo exporter uses Maya's native "blend" material wich allows to stack an arbitrary number of materials each coming with its own transparency "blend" map. You'd like something akin in Indigo's GUI, is it ?
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The thing is, Indigo now is somehow a studio so it should at least be on front allowing you to do the most of it. I'll give you an example, when Cull Geometry was added to Section Plane Cinema 4D didn't support it, still I was able to use it. In the present Cinema 4D haven't the best of options regarding complex materials (blended), but it make things even worse that in indigo front things are actually worse. At least if in indigo front they behaved nicely, one could wait until the export to keep on par, it could load the blended materials and rearrange in a meaningful way instead of splattering them all over.ENSLAVER wrote:Hmm for people that use simple exporter applications that lack decent material editing functions it would be useful though I think time is better spent getting exporters to harness the power of the material editors built into the 3D applications.
Yes, actually the complex materials term has nothing to do with Cinema 4D, I just coined it up, because in opposition with a simple material, if you have multiple blended materials the complexity add up, let's say we have 4 blended materials, one needs to have 7 actual separate simple materials, 3 blended materials, and 4 desired ones, all splattered all over, messing with normal ones in material list. For me it's messy, but I have my own shortcomings, I'll give you that, I may not as well be as bright as some here.CTZN wrote:Pardon me pixie, are you referring to the blend material in Indigo's GUI ? "Complex materials" is perhaps a C4D/Cindigo expression ?
Re: [REQ] Complex Materials
Hi Pixie,
Presumably it would be an improvement for you if blend materials were shown in a tree layout in the scene editor?
Presumably it would be an improvement for you if blend materials were shown in a tree layout in the scene editor?
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Re: [REQ] Complex Materials
It would be awesome!OnoSendai wrote:Hi Pixie,
Presumably it would be an improvement for you if blend materials were shown in a tree layout in the scene editor?
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