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[neo0.]

One thing that I was thinking about at work would be to make skindigo's materials and options windows into photoshop style dockable/collapsable widgets. I think this would greatly help with the workflow.

[pickles]

Firstly i'm new to indigo, skindigo and rendering generally, so this may be a newbie comment and my terminology may be off.

Is there a reason skindigo can't have a drag and drop material list and bypass the sketchup one entirely? At the moment i'm creating a colour or texture in the sketchup materials window and then linking it to a material in the skindigo window.

It's a double step process and i don't understand why it is this way. It would make more sense to me if sketchup's material paradigm was duplicated for skindigo.

[Whaat]

Firstly i'm new to indigo, skindigo and rendering generally, so this may be a newbie comment and my terminology may be off.

Is there a reason skindigo can't have a drag and drop material list and bypass the sketchup one entirely? At the moment i'm creating a colour or texture in the sketchup materials window and then linking it to a material in the skindigo window.

It's a double step process and i don't understand why it is this way. It would make more sense to me if sketchup's material paradigm was duplicated for skindigo.

I'm not quite sure what you mean here, pickles. SkIndigo has been widely praised for it's highly effcient workflow, but if there are ways to speed it up even more, I'm all ears...

Do you mean that you would like to have an all encompassing SkIndigo material editor so that you never have to use the SketchUp one? Can you describe the workflow that you would like in a bit more detail?

[Whaat]

One thing that I was thinking about at work would be to make skindigo's materials and options windows into photoshop style dockable/collapsable widgets. I think this would greatly help with the workflow.

neo,

I'm afraid I have to work within the constraints of HTML dialogs. I don't think it's possible to create dockable widgets. Anyway, it would take a lot of time and effort to accomplish this and I'm not sure if this is the best use of my time. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

[neo0.]

Well, to clear things up, what I basically meant was that you would be able to drag the skindigo windows to the side and they would snap into place on one side of your sketchup window..

[pickles]

yeah i'm struggling to articulate what i mean.

i feel like a totally seperate material browser for skindigo would be simpler to get my head around. basically behave the same as the sketchup one - material preview/new/edit/duplicate, paintbucket or drag and drop on. imported materials become persistant.

[neo0.]

As far as I can tell, the sketchup UI already has some collapsable things (if you click emission, that section collapses.) All that im basically asking for is to be able to collapse the entire material editor, but be able decollpase it quickly when you need it again. IMO, one of the most noticeable problems with the workflow is that you spend to much time opening and closing the material editor..

material previews still require too much micromanaging imo, though I dont know if Ono has implemented automatic previewing. It would be good to only have to set the amount of spp it renders too and the amount of your cpu it uses, and then have it automatically show you any changes it makes as you make them. It would work somewhat like a painter mixing paints.. Whenever an artists mixes paint, the results are automatically shown..

[djegoo]

Hi

I have a little request but i don t know if it is more Indigo general or skindigo.
Sometime i bake images for projects that are not mine, and sometime clients dont understand that like us humans, even today's best technologies need time to bake a nice drawing, when we don t have a renderfarm at home.
So, my request would be, to have an option to check somewhere like "save every XXminutes" to be able to have the progression of the image convergence, but under a different name, so that it doesn t replace the current save, because sometime it renders while i sleep so i wouldn t have to wake every hour;

would that be easy to build?

[neo0.]

Would it be possible to just have the option of creating a "unified" panel that has both the material editor, render options, etc. all in it which can be popped open and collapsed whenever you need them?

I don't know.. I also am starting to feel like a separate window for texture maps would be useful...

[djegoo]

hi

I read somewhere (over the rainbow...) on the forum that there was a manual command to type in the ruby window to purge everything about indigo materials and settings and etc but i forgot to note it and i cannot find it again
Could there be an icon on which we could click to purge everything?
or at least could you tell me what is the command to type again please? it would really same one of my works!

thank you kindly!!

[Whaat]

hi

I read somewhere (over the rainbow...) on the forum that there was a manual command to type in the ruby window to purge everything about indigo materials and settings and etc but i forgot to note it and i cannot find it again
Could there be an icon on which we could click to purge everything?
or at least could you tell me what is the command to type again please? it would really same one of my works!

thank you kindly!!

You can purge Indigo settings using the Ruby Console.

Type 'SkIndigo.purge_mats' to purge all your material settings.
Type 'SkIndigo.purge_model' to purge all your render settings.

[djegoo]

OH THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Cheers!

[Soup]

I will agree that it seems a bit redundant having two material editor windows open at once, I was running out of screen space on my last monitor. However I don't really have a solution as of yet for that.

[neo0.]

Also, it would be good, if we didn't have to manually type in values for everything.. Those who want precision still would have the option, but some sliders would be great.

[Soup]

Press the UI button Neo0