hi,

Some of you may have seen my old Materials Library from time to time.

It’s current home is here:

Blend Swap Blend Swap The one place for Free 3D assets for the Blender Community



The basic Blender Internal Materials which I made or collected from the community, were quite good as examples of what you can do & as starting points for learning & improving your own materials.



Well, It’s about time for an update!



I’m looking for submissions for all categories.

Please, submit materials in .blend format, you can use http://www.pasteall.org/blend/

Once the Library is completed,

1/ It will be released on Blendswap with author attribution, under CC0

Please note: I will be attributing the authors,

however you will not be required to attribute the authors if you use the materials.

So the actual lib will be CC0

2/ I’ll set a Python Mat library to include all materials.

3/ Said library will go into Blender Contrib for all to use.

4/ Start online repository via addon to browse & load materials.

Please Note:

I will in the Blend file include the names of all authors who contribute.

In the py addon this will also be possible.

Remember, we are dealing with Blender materials & we all have access to the same tools.

Please Note 2:

I know we need a better way for a mat lib & presets in Blender.

This is a way forward.

Edit! Beta Release 3!!

Hi, for several weeks I have been collecting Cycles Node set ups & materials.

The goal is to provide a fairly comprehensive Material Library for Cycles.

I’m currently seeking Materials & Textures (Cycles only, no images) to build upon this library to present the community with a .blend mat lib (availible on Blendswap) & a Python Addon Material Lib for Contrib addons.

All Category’s have Basic/Simple, Advanced/Open Nodes & Advanced Grouped Nodes.

Category’s as stands & needed materials/textures:

Carpaint Wood Stone Synthetic Skin Organic Earth Textile Others Misc.

I’ve renamed all the materials & It’t time for a beta release of the .blend mat lib.

Materials with the suffix category_matname_G contain groups.

Special Thanks to all the contributors so far.

meta-androcto, mib2berlin, kellpossible, monsterdog, Jonathon L, elbrujodelatribu, lubomircenovsky, wesdevs, ace dragon, naibot, gwenouille, NRK, Agus, dimistic, broadstu, gexwing, const, moony, enzyme69, JuanJosé Torres, Greg Zaal,

the blender community & developers & anyone that I missed,let me know & I’ll add you.

beta_Cycles_matlib_3 (beta version on blendswap)

Thanks for help & support.

This is a community effort to provide ourselves with a decent mat lib.