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Idea #45: Ability to get a material form Blender.

Written by mitchel0 the 18 Aug 10 at 11:34. Category: Fileformats. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Rationale

being able to get a separate file that is a material. something that could be loaded up into other programs.
I believe that this could be a very useful addition to Blender. Thank you

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moomoo wrote on the 18 Aug 10 at 11:41

What file type would it be saved to, and what other software packages could it be opened in or imported into?

mitchel0 wrote on the 18 Aug 10 at 12:57

well i was thinking something that was universal, something that could be opened in maya 3dmax, and all others, so it could be multiple different file types

vildanovak wrote on the 18 Aug 10 at 13:26

Then its fbx export? I guess a standard for shading is also renderman format?
blender materials support specific procedural textures, so it's impossible to export these without baking them to a specific model.
Also, not only blender, but other softwares too support multiple renderers, and for each of these renderers usually materials are incompatible, so it would have to have many options, like "3dmax vray" "3dmax mentalray" "XSI mentalray" "3dmax finalrender" e.t.c.
I wouldn't recommend this idea to get from sandbox as it is, since it doesn't give much sense to me.

mfoxdogg (Developer) wrote on the 18 Aug 10 at 22:59

Really a job for a small addon which shouldn't be too hard to do

dna (Developer) wrote on the 11 Sep 10 at 15:11

Yeah, this is super easy.

I made a material->json->material script (minus nodes & images for now) without too much trouble.

jesterKing (Administrator) wrote on the 19 Dec 10 at 02:53

I think it'll be a bit hard to define how this material export should be handled. Perhaps an exhaustive list of all needed material formats would be good?

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