Please implement a "Local DB" Tab!!! PLEAAAAAAASE!

[Synthercat]

It would be a lot timesaving for me... for my line of work I use 20-30 different mats only and I must tryout witch of them suits all the time.
I would LOVE a Local DB tab next to the Live DB that will help me organise all the way I want without messing with the Live DB.\
I am sure other people need this too.

Thank you for listening

[pixelrush]

Yeah that would be a good idea. +1
Radiance probably has a book full of To Do ideas now.
Soon he needs another coder....
Lets hope he keeps selling licenses and then upgrades so our wishes come true.

[Nostromo]

It's in the pipe.. don't worry

/M

[Synthercat]

Thank you!!!

And here is an additional idea... if I export something to octane with a matterial named "blah blah 32" a node with a specific Local Material is connected automaticaly. Just saying

"This is the last survivor of Nostromo signing off"

[matej]

I'll add here a request I already posted. (without proper bug report / feature system, it's impossible to know if the devs acknowledged something or not)

I think it will be useful if we could choose if images get packed in material / texture nodes or just 'linked'. For local filesystem use it would be more practical to not pack images in .ocm, as they can be re-edited without re-creating the file. Thus also preventing redundant copies.

[kubo]

I think you should find some time ( ) to create a proper human clone machine so we can clone, twice at least, the whole Refractive team, so they can acomodate all our wishes....
... besides what are a couple more lines of code!

[Synthercat]

I think you should find some time ( ) to create a proper human clone machine so we can clone, twice at least, the whole Refractive team, so they can acomodate all our wishes....
... besides what are a couple more lines of code!

lol but that great idea of matej?
if the local DB is done then the matej idea is just a couple of lines. Zero lines actually since that could be the default (load link mats). it would take some work to have them packed though

[Nostromo]

Hi guys,

most probably the local db will be in a first instance done using linked files rather than embedded. Then later on we'll add switches so that both OCS & Local Material can be switched to be embedded or linked.

Regards
/M

[cropkaarchitects]

Hi Guys,

Maybe I am blind but I can't find the Local DB tab anywhere!!! And it is definitely shown in the latest manual for version 2.3. Am I missing something here or has this not yet been implemented?

Thanks for you help!

[radiance]

Hi Guys,

Maybe I am blind but I can't find the Local DB tab anywhere!!! And it is definitely shown in the latest manual for version 2.3. Am I missing something here or has this not yet been implemented?

Thanks for you help!

Hey, there's no local DB yet in any released versions...

Radiance