Parametric Modeling - development?

Jorgensen

@samuel_t

Hi Samuel

Would it be possible to use nodes, to control materials, or don’t you have access to the materials?

Jorgensen

samuel_t

Hi @Jorgensen,

What exactly do you mean by "to control materials"?

In the Nodes Editor, it is possible to apply a material to the group resulting from a Draw pyramid node, for example.

This material comes from the active model. If this parametric schema is then imported into another model which does not have this material, it is then substituted by a random color.

Jorgensen

Hi @samuel_t

MATERIAL NODE
What I meant was, if it is possible to handle material parameters like

color
opacity
image source (path)
image size x
image size y

The use for this would be, creating a material, and two or more bitmap nodes, this way is fast to change and test different material settings, eg. by switching between the two bitmap nodes.

SLIDER NODE
A slider node for fast and easy way to change values, and seem them change without having to think about a number - just watching the result.

COMPONENTS
Would it possible to use components instead of groups? it would be very usefull to copy components around, and when you edit one, you edit all.
It might allready be possible, and I have just overlooked it.

An example - a simple hotel - I created one component, use nodes to construct the hotel and BAM. It could hotel rooms, as components, that can be copied around.
Then it's easy to add details and update the whole project in one operation.

In the example I created a component, the single one on the left. I then used Node editor to copy the component, but they become groups, and when I change the first component - nothing happens - of cource.

Could be interresting
Jorgensen

Jorgensen

@samuel_t components?

Jorgensen

@samuel_t bump

Jorgensen

I hope that you, or others, pickup and continue to develop this plugin / feature - as I think is has a huge potential

L i am

I am having a play with it, not got my head around it yet, but my initial thoughts are it looks quite powerful

L i am

I do not know much about AI but what about asking AI to work on it. Please note the short conversation I had with AI

Amazing

L i am

and this one

samuel_t

@Jorgensen, @L-i-am Thanks for your interest in this plugin I haven't abandoned it... I just have too many projects in progress