Is there a material library?

Support Materials and Textures
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Just started with Blender and am a bit confused:

Having seen how 3ds myx does this, i.e. in app library of materials, grouped by available renderers, I couldn’t find anything like it in Blender so far. Also, are there good online databases for materials you might access through a plugin in belnder?

So far it seems you have to recreate all your materials for every project you start, without access to any sort of library/database? Unless you kind of create all possible materials in one .blend file and always load this as your start for anything?

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Material library addon http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Material/Online_Material_Library
Download materials from http://www.blendswap.com/
May your own material library blend file

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Hm, most of these addons had big issues with 2.69. Is there a library addon, where the programmer is alive and bringing it to the newest version?

(Btw, are there any plans to have a library in the blender main project? So it always is up to date?)

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For blender render engine , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rHmGsT-GuI (blendersensei)
Or this technique http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpMhIf49Xq8

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Thanks, will look at the suggestion. I was more thinking of a sane way to store my materials and quickly access/preview them etc rather than getting new ones (although this is beat with an online material DB).

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It will likely never be a part of Blender by default. It’s one of the reasons that Blender is a <100MB download and Max and Maya are multiple GB in size. Utilitarian, maybe, but it forces people to learn.