Is it possible to create new materials with Elefront? I try to create materials that match layer colors.
Human plugin has some components for creating materials. The problem here is that Human components need to be re-enabled after baking, so the workflow is not optimal.
You can assign objects colors with Elefront but I don’t think you can bake new materials to the document. Someone will correct me if I’m wrong hopefully.
However with the new Rhino 8 nodes you very much can do what you are looking for.
Please see example below, utilizing the “Objects” category in Rhino 8 nodes you can create/name/define new Render materials and when you bake your model objects these materials will get added to the document.
Elefront Set Object Colors To Queried Layer Colors:
Rhino 8 Set Object Render Materials To Queried Layer Colors & Create New Materials:
Note how I utilized the concatenate node to name the newly created materials based on their layer name.
20230523_Elefront_Create_Materials_From_Layer_Colors_Response_01a.gh (12.7 KB)
Glad that there are some solutions here. Just to close the loop re: eleFront, indeed there is no functionality for creating or modifying materials - only assigning them based on names that already exist in the document.
