Working with KT materials in Twilight v2 (Pro)

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Working with KT materials in Twilight v2 (Pro)

Post by pdwyer » Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:39 am

Still learning to use the deep material editor and in the mean time I want to use my previously downloaded materials like GreenEdgeGlass.

If I am working on a material and I import I can point to the xml and use it but is there a way to use it like v1 and have imported materials in a library somewhere?

I'm not quite sure how to do this or where.

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Re: Working with KT materials in Twilight v2 (Pro)

Post by Fletch » Sun Oct 05, 2014 5:59 pm

There is no library system, as it was not able to be edited. It was replaced by the Deep Editor.
I suggest that you put your favorite/most used mats into a single material library using Kerkythea material lab. You can export any deep material as an .xml material and import and merge with other libraries using KT to mix and match for a perfect single go-to library.

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Re: Working with KT materials in Twilight v2 (Pro)

Post by pdwyer » Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:24 pm

okay, so store in a folder dedicated to these so as to be easily imported like favourite background HDRs etc

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Re: Working with KT materials in Twilight v2 (Pro)

Post by Fletch » Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:37 pm

either save them out of Twilight as you create them and put them in a folder, or use Kerkythea's material editor - it's free - to create a library by merging materials into a single mat library file.

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Re: Working with KT materials in Twilight v2 (Pro)

Post by Chris » Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:57 pm

pdwyer wrote:okay, so store in a folder dedicated to these so as to be easily imported like favourite background HDRs etc
That's what I do for my workflow. I have my materials organized by folder, just like the HDR images I use for background.

A library browser might be a feature we consider for a future release. It's not something we discussed but I can see the usefulness.

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