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General Category => Feature Requests => Topic started by: samardac on March 08, 2015, 08:15:23 am

Title: Continue Materials modifications
Post by: samardac on March 08, 2015, 08:15:23 am

Hi IStonia,
Thank you for all tools you made for materials I continue to experiment with that tools during my work.
So now we have:
- New material and Assign
- Assign
- Select Polygons by material
- Pick Material
- Pick Material and Assign

Looks like appears a lot of commands and I started to flounder in shortcuts, I decided to make little window to use it during working with materials. I keep this window near my area of work to have quick access. Because main material window is too big I decided to have some kind of small remote control.

(https://monosnap.com/file/GvCg3o30AZ7XJrEQP4KR3axotr61dy.png)
Full screen: https://monosnap.com/file/GvCg3o30AZ7XJrEQP4KR3axotr61dy.png

Now working with those commands I found that it needs some more commands:
1. New material from selection
2. Pick material from selected polygons (because now pick material works only from shortcut this one will work also from menu or window)

Title: Re: Continue Materials modifications
Post by: IStonia on March 08, 2015, 08:59:48 am

 New material from selection : What does it do?

Title: Re: Continue Materials modifications
Post by: samardac on March 08, 2015, 09:02:48 am

It is like copy and past.
For example you select some polygons with the same material and run this command. This command will create new material the same like was selected but new.

Title: Re: Continue Materials modifications
Post by: samardac on March 08, 2015, 09:17:53 am

I have some suggestions on how to modify Material window.
Now this window is very big, so I suggest to hide some parts that we not use and show them if we need them. Now having new commands we do not need to have all parts visible.

(https://monosnap.com/file/yf0CRVqtXOHrpDHx3S1LQvRyiLJklQ.png)

For example I never use "Manager" also I use very rare "Project Librery" but they take a lot of place so I sugest to hide them and make Main window like on screen.
Also add buttons - show/hide and Material sphere into this main window.

Title: Re: Continue Materials modifications
Post by: samardac on March 08, 2015, 09:36:15 am

I think that this command must be added here:

(https://monosnap.com/file/D6xctdYE5WOH74NJEk3HbNpYtfzvIq.png)

*Not Copy and past but Duplicate :)

Title: Re: Continue Materials modifications
Post by: samardac on March 08, 2015, 10:38:28 am

Quote

New material from selection : What does it do?

Just thought it is like Duplicate Material.
First it pick material, second it duplicate it.

Title: Re: Continue Materials modifications
Post by: IStonia on March 13, 2015, 10:13:23 am

Try this
http://www.digitalfossils.com/Download/NVil-Mar-12-15.rar

  * Some bug fixings.
  * Edit > Customize > Tools > Polygon Shortcut Tools > P_Select Material From Selected Polygon.
  * Edit > Customize > Tools > Polygon Shortcut Tools > P_Duplicate Material From Selected Polygon.