Quote - > Quote - however I would not want a system to try and second guess what I want it to do.  Having a system that prevents you from making dumb mistakes is also a system that will not let you be creative.  for instance if the shader is going to be applied to the skin a smart shader would say skin can be Tanish/Blackish/Yellowish but not Blueish/Greenish.  Which would be great if you were doing a human but not so great if you were doing the Wicked Witch of the West (who is green).

That's actually not even close to what I was suggesting.  

Laurie

From your first post

Quote -   Also, the ability NOT to accidentally create garbage - smart nodes and materials.

and a quote for Vilters

Quote - - Materail room. => Make it impossible to connect anything into anything.
Only allow connections that make sense. => Some sort of expandable Flow-Chart with controllable options. But only with the nodes that continue to make sense.

between these two requests you and Vilters are asking for a system to lock you down and not "create garbage".  A computer is great at many things, however knowing what is right and wrong is not one of them.  A computer can only follow a set of rules.  The problem is "garbage" comes in many forms and is easy for you and me to spot but next to impossible for a computer because the "garbage" is technically correct just used in the wrong context.  In my example people should not be green or blue because in real life a blue or green person is wrong or "garbage".  How is the computer suppose to know that a green person is not garbage?

 

The first part of my quote says that what you really want is a bunch of presets.  Since most parts of a node are animateable then you should be able to have a dial on the figure once you apply the node to the figure and dial in what you want. 

 

Are there no python scripts that present a palette of colors to apply to an object? 

 

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