meterilals in a newly created library

[Anonymous]

I' d like to deploy a special library with furnitures. These furnitures have special materials created by modifying exesting ones of the basic lib. and adding textures to them. I make sure that the the textures are in a folder within the new library. Is there a way to make the materials available for users using my library ?

I know one solution however to make my materiles defined in the main script of the objects. It would be a solution if could get back somewhow the detailed material definition of my newly (visually) created materilals. is it possible?

[Anonymous]

You can use the DEFINE MATERIAL and DEFINE TEXTURE to include these within the library part. The actual image or bitmap files for the textures will need to included to be loaded by the user in their libraries.

The other approach is to create and set the materials as defaults (using you own unique names) and deliver the parts as a module or PLN file. This way a merge will incorporate the material definitions into the user's file. (They will still need to load the textures.)

The choice between the two methods depends on whether you want the material settings locked-in to the part or you want them editable by the user. Alternatively if you want to provide a limited number of choices you can define them internally and use a values list with IF statements for the user to select them.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I know the theories. I need a bit specific answer specially to my second question. You know I hate typing. 🙂