I got suckered into that "pay-by-the-month" thing before... old concept, very effective way of relieving me of my hard-earned. Never again... what if you go off Poser, seduced by - say - modo or Vue or Blender or having a non-virtual life for a while? You're still paying for that stuff, regardless.

MS is (are?) trying this ($100/year subscription) with their latest Office product: no thanks. I know I don't own any software unless I write it myself, but I can chose the licencing terms, and I think in the long run you end up paying more for the cow if you buy it in pieces than if they deliver the whole virtual beast to your front door and ask for that one-time payment.

Oh, I do like the recipe concept, btw, Joe. To some degree, I believe it's where BB was going with it - you could collect 'recipes' of his for different materials off the different sites... but then, those weren't really 'recipes' - unless you got the script so you could see what he was doing - so much as 'take-away dinners', were they?

To enlarge on your recipe notion: they Should be more than just:

-- plug yadda into yiddi
-- plug tweedle-dee into tweedle-dum

...but rather:

-- plug yadda into yiddi
..... the yadda node is what gives the sense of coarseness to the texture... you can increase or decrease coarseness by increasing or decreasing the values in that channel: upper value is 1, lower value is -1, pivotal value is actually .035697... the yiddi channel blah-blah-blah
-- plug tweedle-dee into tweedle-dum [more of the same]

So people would then not only be able to "use the nodes appropriately in a sentence" but could also synthesise this information to create new textures/shaders.

I still think a revamp of the mat room to include UserDefined-nodes (OSL) and node groups and NodeObjects (where you would be able to instantiate your own nodes from your own libraries) would be cool, though.

I guess I'm alone in thinking this, though, clearly. :blink:

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