Viz material editor

[joseph alexander]

Is there a plugin/way that allows you to navigate more then the alloted 24 slots. How do people deal with this.. My current scenes keep on getting more and more material intense...

 

 

-joe

[martincg]

hi joseph alexander,

 

i think there is no script for it, best way make another material is drag and drop one used slot to another, overlayed material will be still in scene only not visible in material slot /this trick is for max but i think it is working for viz too/

[AJLynn]

Two common ways to deal with this:

 

Use multi/sub materials.

 

Delete materials and check editor only - they still exist and are assigned to materials, just not seen in editor. If you want to edit them or assign them to more objects later, get them back into editor either by using the materials in scene listing getting them from the objects with the eyedropper.

[Tim Saunders]

this bothered me when i first started using viz, but now i just think of the material editor itself as 1-my shop for editiong 1 material at a time, 2-a quick access panel for the top 24 materials used in a scene. if there will most likely not be any need for any editing of a particular material in a scene, shift it over to the material map browser by getting a new material in it's place. you know, when you click the "get material" button. it then places a new material on that spot. but if i need to get an old material to edit it, or assign it to a new object i just click on another square and click the "get material" button again, but check scene in the material/map browser and everything that has been asigned to an object will be listed. you probably know this allready, but it's just a metter of how you think of it. and i think of it as my material browser and my "quick access or editing panel."

[vizwhiz]

forget who but someone wrote a something called

 

medit

 

may be its posted at scriptspot.com

it uses The 24th material spot and Then it Toggles 1st 24 x 2nd 24 materials

 

extremely handy

 

(i have never used it Tho)

 

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i just had To look it up

 

http://www.scriptspot.com/Main_Scripts.asp?BrowseType=Materials&Sort=Name&ST=1&SearchField=&Page=5

 

MeditExtender 0.12

 

brought To you by Bobo, The Great = allows 1024 materials in The editor

 

same Page just above This

Medit 48 1.0 by The Guzz

 

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Randy