Quote - You can script a shader mixer shader, but it isn't very user friendly - look at a Materials or Shader preset 9saved as ASCII if you want to use an external text editor) for an SM shader. In theory it would be possible for someone to write a script to build a customised shader, or even a new plugin for building them.

The script route was what I was thinking, but you're right, a plugin would be a bit more complete.

Something with at least a basic UI to set the parts the user needs could make it user-friendly, but this would take a bit of design beforehand. 

I always thought that DAZ should do more to make it easier to introduce and mix up IBL/AOL into a scene as well. 3Delight can do some very decent renders, but it seems as if nobody really wants to make the more complex portions accessible. 

 

Me, I've just been lazy and shoved it out to LuxRender, though that takes a metric ton of time to render.

 

Something to think on, though... :)