Quote - Why are a lot of P6 MATs in the Materials folder?

at face value i find this a humorous question. why are materials in the material folder? :-P

Quote - Is there some advance to having them there rather than the Pose folder?

My personal reasons are:

• I find the selection method in the material room easier to use.
• I often make adjustments to the materials i am applying.
• I prefer to have my MAT files in their own library, seprate from poses
• when making custom material setups i am in the material room and i save them while i  am there into the material library, so having MAT file in the pose library would mean my materials are spread out.
• I can establish a user interface more condusive to material application and material library navigation without rearranging my 'pose' interface or using one of my few remaining UI dots.

 

Quote - EG. Why put character skins there? Is it because of all the shaders / node stuff etc? Can this info not be made into a MAT Pose & then people access the Material room if they want to?

As i understand, everything that can currenly be done in a MC6 can be done in a MAT. there is only a little text editing needed to convert a MC6 into a MAT. Personaly i dont see why you would want to unless you were trying to make a MAT for P5.

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