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A material library will be added to Blender for 2.5 we would like to invite the community to participate in this by donating material settings. In order to facilitate this, please provide a link to a blend file with a single material in it. The naming of the material
should be in the following format. CATEGORY_type_adjective-[fast|quality].blend So for example METAL_gold_shiny-fast.blend The 'fast/quality' is optional. You can also include the name of the material creator. For submittals we would also like a render of the material applied to the appropriate test object(s) in the "Blender Material Preview Scenes" created by Robin Marín (tuqueque) http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=151903 http://www.mediafire.com/?tnmzomowqo0 Note that as stated in the readme - you should make sure that your screen is set to a 2.2 gamma and color corrected - otherwise you might end up wondering why your amazing looking material got rejected  For all submittals given that they possibly used in all sorts of works, and numerous materials will be used in a single work, the license for most of the materials will probably need to be something along the lines of public domain - thus a statement of 'The Blender Foundation has my permission to release this material under a license of its choosing' would be good to add. Also if your material is derived from someone elses please let us know. The categories are Fabrics Glass Metal Plastic/Rubber Paint Ceramic/Tile Wood Brick/Stone Crystal Greenery Liquids Terrain Patterns Atmospheric Energetic Floors Walls Character Creature Food We can also have an 'other' and you can suggest other categories as well, but preferably submittals should fall into one of the above. LetterRip |
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16-Oct-09, 09:25
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Thanks for working on this. An internal material library will be a big help.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide |
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16-Oct-09, 11:41
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List of questions about new material / textures
Over time in the blender's forum i'v collected some good mat/ texture and i also created some new mat/text for myself which i'm ready to share ################################################## ##### but i do have some questions about theses Q1 Quote " Also if your material is derived from someone elses please let us know." if over time you got some mat/texture on the forum and don't remember where you got theses mat/text and it has probably already been modified for a specific object can theses be submitted ? Note at the time when this mat / texture was collected or given in the forum there was no mention of Copyright or Specific licences as such so theses can be considered as free to use! Q2 Nodes can the new mat/ text include some stuff with Material - texture or composites nodes ? Q3 other lib on WEB Theses new mat/text should not be from existing library like Blender mat repository or other lib but what happen if you took one of theses mat and modified it so that it has a new look using new settings i mean it's basically a new mat / text but derived from an existing one! so the new mat / text may not look at all like the original one Q4 Other specs Can Theses new mat/text include any displacement modifier or other modifier like subsurf or edgesplit ect.. ? i mean this represent more a modification to the mesh of the object then a pure material / texture but necessary to give the proper look for the applied mat / texture! Q5 Date for submittal What is the limit date for submittal of theses new mat/text q6 by the way where do you upload theses new files with mat/ text ? Thanks Happy blendering |
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16-Oct-09, 12:52
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@letterrip why not grab some materials from the blender materials site, their main site went down some time ago but there is a back up, all materials there were under a CC license. The handy part was that some of the materials are rated by users so there is a quick way of telling the good from the bad.
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16-Oct-09, 13:00
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I did a few mats for the Blender Open Material Repository. The link is here.
I don't think you are going to want "Alien Booger" but the sandy soil was highly praised and the metals are pretty good. I authored all of them on that page (the ones by Tea Monster). I would render it out, but I'm on a crappy loaner machine at the moment and I have trouble rendering with ray tracing without it locking up. I'll try tonight though. |
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16-Oct-09, 13:10
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Instead of fast/quality, can't you just give some sort of number, which is the rendertime of a basic scene with only that material, forexample a susane on a black background? And one thing more, shouldn't there be a seperate forum for this, each posted material should have a own thread so that you can discuss the materials and refine it easier.
However, this is something really good! |
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16-Oct-09, 13:19
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16-Oct-09, 13:42
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are u meant material library will be build in with blender (embedded) ?
IIIIIII REEEEJJJECCCTTT :-) listen i see it same way , but different i dont think its a good idea , to put material library inside blender application (emmbeded) the best why will be easy import ,and easy preview from a URL file/directory/samba/http/ftp/nfs/etc... this why you just have to add a material folder to the blender directory (with blender by default configured to view that directory by relative path) that way you can add templates easly / change / replace /upgrade /delete /rename templates easily i think the most good things about blender is that is light not like other applications that they try the microsoft way and put all things build in then you have 1000 checkbox to handle all . hope my sound will be heard thank you to read my "loud" post |
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16-Oct-09, 14:02
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16-Oct-09, 14:23
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i love blender as is , simple
i hope the one how have to read about this will and will comment on my post , i will be nice to be eared and not ignored Last edited by Shay Tessler; 16-Oct-09 at 14:45. |
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16-Oct-09, 14:30
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Please feel free to use all of them. If you believe it would be too much work for you to prepare them for new Blender, please check my materials in this repository, and let me know if there are some that you would like to use and I will happily prepare these selected.
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16-Oct-09, 14:35
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16-Oct-09, 14:38
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16-Oct-09, 14:40
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Hi!
May be you remember my "mats" a few years ago. If you like it, please, take all that you want The adress: www.freewebs.com/blendermats Thanks a lot and see you soon!!! Atte. Oscar Alvarado |
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16-Oct-09, 15:38
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Hi all,
the fast and quality is optional due to the fact that if the reviewers disagree they will recategorize it since it is rather subjective Shay, Quote:
The goal is to keep the increase in download size below 1MB. So we are not talking 'massive bloat'. A material definition only takes perhaps a kb or so of data (probably less) so a 1000 of them makes a MB of uncompressed data.Everyone, thanks for the submissions already don't forget to add the bit about the 'release', LetterRip |
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16-Oct-09, 16:24
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These are rather old and don't use any of the more advanced features like material and texture nodes, but perhaps they can be of some use:
http://matrep.parastudios.de/index.php?p=8&u=320 The Blender Foundation has my permission to release these materials (all five in the above link) under a license of its choosing. |
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16-Oct-09, 16:49
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Great news.
Consider licensing it under CC0? http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Creative commons created the CC0 project to try and apply the public domain legally as worldwide as possible, as well as making that human readable and understandable. This seems like a good use case!
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16-Oct-09, 16:57
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16-Oct-09, 17:02
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well the data is small , didn't know how much small dose that means that the materials going to be embedded in the software ? i still think it should be done externally , cause when new material will come ,there is a need to update blender? also , adding the capability of preview simply without a need to import the blend file and then take the material .. give more options , like getting directly from material repository and blender is open . means will come in the future more material repository site why not keep it open ? thanks 
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16-Oct-09, 17:04
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Hey Shay,
Nice to see another Israeli here; anyway, your points are valid (I don't agree but that's besides the point), discussions take place in IRC and in mailing lists, I suggest you go over the blender.org web page here http://www.blender.org/community/user-community/ and continue from there, regards, shul |
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16-Oct-09, 18:21
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