Quote - Ah that looks good. Where can I buy?

Timescale for release is not yet set. I have aspirations to collaborate on this venture with the very best shader guru in the community and if that works out I will need to make sure the timescale and functionality of EZMat accommodates their needs too. > Quote - @Snarly, would it be possible to have some kind of for loop in this to do multiple renders with different material settings automatically? 

That is not part of the functionality yet, but could easily be added. > Quote - Or even better, could you expose some kind of python access so one can apply a shader with parameters programmatically? Maybe your architecture seperates UI and application core already, so that would not be any significant effort?

EZMat supports user written plugins, has an API and comes with a simple utility to generate a lot of the code needed for the plugin. So yes, it can already do this. It is not suitable for importing as a module, but the plugin functionality makes that requirement redundant, I believe. > Quote - Usecase is that finetuning a shader is highly manual work, having a python interface for shader configuration could help in automating this process (let poser render many variations while having coffee, and afterwards picking the best settings)

You might also like to look at Bagginsbill's Matmatic script, which can help hugely with this kind of workflow.

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