Hello,
Is it possible to prevent new materials from always being inserted at the bottom? Can this be set to “top”? The display always jumps to the top material, but new materials are inserted at the bottom. This is very inconvenient for many materials. It would be wonderful if, when selecting an object, the system jumped directly to the relevant material.
There is currently no way to add new materials on top of the list.
About object selection and materials: In the Properties dialog material page it will select the material that is in use when selecting an object.
One question about the jumping. Can you send a video about the jumping problem?
Regards,
Max
I wanted to say that when inserting a new material, the view jumps to the top material, no matter where you were before, and that the new material is inserted at the bottom. You scroll constantly and always.
Can you post the information that is given by running the SystemInfo command on Rhino.
Rhino 8 SR13 2024-11-12 (Rhino 8, 8.13.24317.13001, Git hash:master @ ca3666c3ebed2b9567e10930077bfa0884f65db9)
License type: Commercial, Build 2024-11-12
License details: Stand-Alone
Windows 11 (10.0.22631 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32GB)
.NET 7.0.0
Computer platform: DESKTOP
Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (NVidia) Memory: 12GB, Driver date: 9-26-2024 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 565.90
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0
OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)
Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High
Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 9-26-2024
Driver Version: 32.0.15.6590
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 12 GB
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.13.24317.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoLabsTools.rhp “Rhino Labs-Werkzeuge”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.13.24317.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.13.24317.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.13.24317.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.13.24317.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.13.24317.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Calc.rhp “Rechner”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”
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I tried the same Rhino version, but I keep having trouble to reproduce this. For me the thumbnails stay at the same location when adding a new material using the plus button. If possible it would be nice to see a video of the problem. It would make it easier to find a fix for the problem.
Does that help?
Thank you. I logged https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-85163/TreeView-in-content-editor-jumps-when-adding-a-new-material.
I will take a look and fix it.
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Thank You! 
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Unfortunately, nothing has changed in this behavior with the updates so far. If you have a lot of materials, it is incomprehensible to me why new materials are always added at the bottom, but the directory always jumps to the top. I spend a lot of time with useless scrolling. It’s just annoying and I don’t see the point.
That is correct, the YT issue has not yet been fixed. We are trying to solve it.
The problem is only in the tree view, if one uses the list or grid view, then you do not need to scroll when adding new materials.
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Oh, I hadn’t noticed that. Yes, that looks good. Thanks, then I can carry on like this until it’s fixed.
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I fixed the bug. The fix will be in Rhino v8.16.
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