at blendswap are there more the one link for your materials?
or one link per material
or is there one file with all your materials?
for the last mat i don’t see same nodes set up !
should this be open with latest SVN or with
last official version ?
is there a sample file for the last mat and a site to explain how it was done?
thanks
Do you have a bronze Material, too ? I would love you for that 
very good. Thanks for the material.
i finaly got a sample file for the last 2 materials i think!
which are very nice looking
and gives more choice for fabric
thanks
got a problem with the checkerboard table cloth
if i open it up with official SVN it works fine
but if i open it with latest SVN i loose the checkerboard !
got this problem too ?
what to do with this ?
thanks
Thanks @dukejib and @Carrozza!
@RickyBlender, the tablecloth blendswap file contains two node setups with two colors config for each one. The second setup has a little change. I have changed the diffuse nodes by glossy nodes (with high roughness). You can see the preview renders in blendswap.
Regarding the SVN version of Blender, I don’t know why that error occurs. I have used the last official version, Blender 2.66a. I think the development version is solving problems with python nodes and freestyle. If this error persists with 2.67 I will see what is happening.
I have confirmed with a couple of my own node groups that there are a few issues when opening node groups in old files with a newer build of Blender. It is not the fault of the shader itself, but a bug.
Ungrouping and regrouping the nodes will fix it though, but there really is a bug in the conversion process and it should be reported.
bug reported
for window 32 bits
if you have bug on other OS you should add comments on bug report
thanks
Ricky; the bug happens on Win64 bits too. In fact, I don’t think this bug is even OS-specific (but related on how group nodes are converted to use the new groups system that came with Pynodes).
i have only win 32 and cannot make comments on other OS!
what the source problem is for the Dev to determine!
so add you comments for win 64 bits and it might help dev to debug it!
hopefully it will be debug soon!
thanks
Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to get materials from one Blender file to another? I know this must be simple because I can’t find any information on it but I can’t seem to figure it out.
@ tommywright try file… append…browse to you file that has the material, and then go into the materials folder and select it… if that doesn’t work go into the objects file instead…bring in the object, than delete the object… the material should still remain. Just make sure before appending, in the original file you have the material named something meaningful.
There are probably other ways, but that should work.
Ahhh… bringing in the object will work for sure (I’m an idiot). When I do the Append, I get only part of the material node… now sure what I’m doing wrong with that. Probably something simple that I’m not looking at. The object thing will work for sure.
Thanks!
You should be able to find a data category called ‘Node Tree’, inside that will be all of the group nodes available for appending.
NOTE: This covers the group nodes only, you might need to hook some more nodes into the inputs and/or outputs to get it working properly.
Hi @tommywright. I think this is the second time that someone ask this question. So I have made a mini tutorial in my blog. It has several screen shots and in this post there are a limit of three images.
I hope it will be useful.
I think Lukas Toenne have solved that question today (revision 55955).
yes got message on bug report
so will have to wait till 955 for win which is not there yet!
but good knws to know bug has been solved!
thanks
happy blendering
Hi everybody. Today I’m going to show you a sand material:
This material setup is very basic. The secret is in the bumping node.
The base is a noise texture node, modified by a wave node to include grainy aspect in some parts of the sand. You get this plugging the wave node factor to the distortion socket of the noise node. After this, there is a color ramp node wich can modify the proportion between smooth and flat parts. You can see how the pattern is on the bottom-right corner.
Bye
That sand texture technique is simple, yet very effective, you can really tell that you have an advantage when using nodes.
I’ve been using images in the last year or so because of the fact that they render a lot faster than procedurals, though I will still use them for various cases.
Where is the dot production node?
