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Meta Material Library Released

  Published by Bart on March 7th, 2007 in Repositories

materials_page1.jpgBrendon Murphy [Meta-Androcto] has released a 'meta material library' in which he has collected over 480 materials and textures and he's planning for 160 more. It is a monster collection of several material libraries that have been released so far and it's well worth checking out.

Brendon is still looking for more additions such as in the 'Special Effects' category. If you have something to share, be sure to check out this thread on BlenderArtists.org.

Also note, that Brendon is doing the proper thing by giving credit to everyone who's work is included. He's still searching for some contributors, so if you spot something that's yours, get in touch with him and it'll be fixed.

The only crit I can think of is that there's no easy to use index yet. Even though Brendon has included several scenes that line up the different materials, a collection of renders with the material names would be a great help to select the material that you need! (Of course, if would be even cooler if Blender had an option to browse materials by preview ;-)

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  1. 1 Cubedude04 Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 7:38 am

    Looks great. this will be very useful

  2. 2 Lekane Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 12:08 pm

    amazing work meta!!!

  3. 3 Joeri Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 12:37 pm

    (Of course, if would be even cooler if Blender had an option to browse materials by preview ;-)
    Blender already does that, I guess you mean a bigger preview :-)

    An idea might be to link/copy a material from one object, say a sphere in a locked layer 20 from a split screen, to another object…. Wait, blender does also do that!

  4. 4 Bart Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 1:08 pm

    @Joeri: "Blender already does that, I guess you mean a bigger preview :-)"

    Really? What I meant is a screen like the imagebrowser, that will show you thumbnails of all the materials that you have in your scene.

  5. 5 Kram1032 Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

    *lol* When I read it, I first thought, you're talking about Meta-Materials xD
    Anyway: Very nice and useful ;)

  6. 6 knittl Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    oh wooweeee!

    great work!

  7. 7 fraek Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 4:13 pm

    what does lol mean?

  8. 8 blendercross Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    ..and i forgot: Thanks Brendon - very helpfull resource!

  9. 9 MikeHart Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

    LOL=> Laughing out loud

  10. 10 fraek Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    have Meta M Library, how do U open RAR in XP?

  11. 11 Paul Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 6:11 pm

    You can use the Open Source 7-Zip program to open .RAR files.
    It is found at: http://www.7-zip.org/

  12. 12 fraek Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 6:34 pm

    Thanks 2 Paul and MikeHart 4 info.

  13. 13 jason Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 7:22 pm

    whenever i extract, the .blend file disappears. just disappears and i can't open it any way. i'm using IZArc.

  14. 14 Jogai Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 8:18 pm

    Mirror: http://www.jogai.nl/images/zoom/Blender3D/mmlb1.rar

  15. 15 tynach Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    I have a collection of self-made skies using only procedural textures. Would that be a good addition?

  16. 16 Sephiroth the Bimbo Master Edit Link Mar 7th, 2007 at 11:36 pm

    wow! this is a very great collection, thanks dude.

  17. 17 madman Edit Link Mar 8th, 2007 at 12:41 am

    Any chances to release this collection of materials with future version of blender?

  18. 18 giorgio Edit Link Mar 8th, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    Do i have to register in filefactory to downlad ?

    Because i click the link and then , the page pops up , but i dont see any download icon , or i dont see where do i have to click to download.

  19. 19 pamtango Edit Link Mar 8th, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    I found you can go to:
    http://brendonmurphy1.googlepages.com/geneticatexture%26%2339%3Bs
    for the download.

  20. 20 pamtango Edit Link Mar 8th, 2007 at 6:19 pm

    Looks like I misspoke. The link I listed is for a different version of a materials file.
    Sorry,
    Pam

  21. 21 epat Edit Link Mar 8th, 2007 at 9:58 pm

    There used to be the Blender Library script that could have been quite useful for previews etc… but I'm not sure what happend to it :(

    -epat.

  22. 22 jason Edit Link Mar 8th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    i keep getting corrupted files…

  23. 23 madcello Edit Link Mar 8th, 2007 at 10:26 pm

    Meta-Androcto, i do not have enough words to thank you for this wonderfull collection!

    1000 thank yous!

  24. 24 bruxy Edit Link Mar 12th, 2007 at 9:53 am

    Great! Hey, would be even better if the materials had some meaningfull names, that would also logically group them (e.g. all woord start with wood, all metals start with metal, construction materials with something else etc….). Sort of naming convenion….
    As for the previews browser… how about do it on the web, so one can also search for them. I've seen something there but there was very few materials…
    I'd love to help if you let me know how…

  25. 25 meta-androcto Edit Link Mar 17th, 2007 at 11:23 am

    Hi, thanks for the great replies. Anyway as a further announcement
    check out this thread> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=91760
    the big beta library and 11 new categorized & named library's.
    Enjoy!

  26. 26 Brendon Murphy Edit Link Oct 9th, 2007 at 8:06 am

    Correct thread…
    http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?p=921106
    All links have been stabilized on my site also.
    brendonmurphy1.googlepages.com/home

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