Hi @nathanletwory , @andy , @scottd , @theoutside , @jeff I’m your project manager now. Welcome to your next 2-week Sprint. Just wanted to share a sense of what we see as priorities to have a high-quality, shareable (among internal teams) and useable materials’s library. Including PBR for viewport us…

[image] brian: Since I can’t really compete with free project management, I’ll get out of the way now and let you proceed. [image]

[image] andy: I was talking about changing the materials themselves. Oh, that sounds like a can of worms… What happens if you change it and don’t save the snapshot and then laod a snapshot and then want to go back? I imagine having multiple users using one file might cause some issues here …

There is a warning that appears when you attempt to load a snapshot without the current data being saved - including the materials.

Also, there’s always Undo - it even works with Snapshots.

Hi Andy, The problem I see using your workflow, is that you can’t make use of existing material libraries if you want to override one material for another, am I right? My current workflow when using more than a render engine is to have the same library built for both engines, i.e. I might have one…

Yes, this is correct. However, we could certainly fix that problem - for example, by allowing you to replace one material with another. Or read a file material directly into an existing material.

[image] andy: Yes, this is correct. However, we could certainly fix that problem - for example, by allowing you to replace one material with another. Or read a file material directly into an existing material. That would make the workflow really smooth. Thanks

[image] andy: e material directly into an existing material. what about a material mapping table? depending on choosen rendering engine, a certain material could be applied to objects

Andy, but I think we already can import material from Library. Right? [image] I checked and it seems to be working. And snapshots seems to be working as you described. I can change materials (even switch to Octane type or VRay) and all material settings saved in snapshots. Igor

We don’t have anything like that, and no plans to do it.

Igor Yes, but what you can’t do is replace an existing material from a library file. That would be required for library files to be used in that workflow. Andy

Prioritization of McNeel work to have a good rendering workflow in a team. Using material libraries of realtime PBR shaders + render-engine specific shaders

Serengeti (Rhino WIP) Rendering WIP

brian (Brian Gillespie) May 20, 2020, 12:50am 43

RH-58506 is fixed in the latest WIP

Topic		Replies	Views
Rendering and Material Improvements(?) in Rhino Rendering WIP v6-presentation , v6	97	11618	November 23, 2019
We need a _MultiRenderEngineMaterial and/or multi-engine library support Rendering WIP	16	1451	February 17, 2020
WIP v7 uses PBR- do you use them? do you want them? Do you even know what they are? Rendering WIP gallery	22	3887	May 18, 2020
Why is Rhino so bad at dealing with materials? Rendering windows	28	2000	June 22, 2024
Please Further Optimise Rhino's Rendering/Cycles for Larger Projects Rhino for Windows	85	3498	February 12, 2020

Prioritization of McNeel work to have a good rendering workflow in a team. Using material libraries of realtime PBR shaders + render-engine specific shaders

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