Proposal: Folder-Based Organization System in Materials Tab

Hello Rhino!

As projects grow in complexity and material count increases, navigating through the Materials tab can be frustrating. As a workaround, I use tags and letters.

In line with SkyG’s recommendation, the integration of a hierarchical folder structure could serve as a straightforward yet effective solution.

Best,
Alan

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This is sorely needed - on large projects the materials list quickly becomes an unmanageable mess. Just the ability to make folders inside of the materials tab to organize would be a huge improvement.

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in V8 the materials can be searched and filtered, and you have the ability to add tags to materials. Does this solve the material management issue for you?

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RH-76001 Folders for materials

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Release target 9.0
ETA: 2028

As the project goes on and on and importing a lot of different objects into it, the material panel becomes very long and uncontrollable. Folders just like Layers would be helpful.

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As I said in meme chat…

Especially when you start to combine models - say you want to render a few different objects together - the materials tab just becomes an utter mess. You also end up with duplicate materials with similar names etc. This would be such a huge improvement.

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