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I know it's a bit much to ask for new features, and still complain about current bugs, but here are a few suggestions for the textures tab, that seem pretty simple to my uneducated self. These would help me a lot, as I only have 2 gigs of VRAM:

* Buttons to set ALL textures to 1/4 - 1/2 - 1/1 - maybe even 1/10, that would be great for larger scenes
* Automatically set textures grabbed from relevant slots (bump, spec, trans etc) to floatimg
* Option to group textures (and set size) by model and OC material. Maybe select model/material from the renderer viewport

DrHemulen wrote:I know it's a bit much to ask for new features, and still complain about current bugs, but here are a few suggestions for the textures tab, that seem pretty simple to my uneducated self. These would help me a lot, as I only have 2 gigs of VRAM:

* Buttons to set ALL textures to 1/4 - 1/2 - 1/1 - maybe even 1/10, that would be great for larger scenes

adding additional factors beyond 1/4 is of course no problem at all - if the are not needed, they won't hurt either.

to switch the whole scene to a lower res is a good idea; maybe to execute by an own switch. the texture based factors are indeed saved for any texture, means when you use the same texture in another scene, it will remember the factor last used. the assumption is that - in general - choosing a lower res for a map more depends on the usual usage than a particular scene. a way to have both might be to just add another "scene factor" that sets an upper size limit. this way the individual factors can still be used/kept and are only oversteered by the scene dependend limit.

DrHemulen wrote:* Automatically set textures grabbed from relevant slots (bump, spec, trans etc) to floatimg

you can force this already in the preferences tab by setting the texture type (last group of settings) from "auto" to the desired type.

DrHemulen wrote:* Option to group textures (and set size) by model and OC material. Maybe select model/material from the renderer viewport

it might be possible to directly extend the viewport context menu (or add another tool) to achieve this without cross relations to the textures tab. don't know if this would be easy to understand.

just in case you haven't noticed it: you can sort the table by each of its columns (asc/desc) by just clicking the respective header. not exactly grouping, but it'll give a little more oversight already...

t_3 wrote:

DrHemulen wrote:* Automatically set textures grabbed from relevant slots (bump, spec, trans etc) to floatimg

you can force this already in the preferences tab by setting the texture type (last group of settings) from "auto" to the desired type.

Oh, cool, hadn't seen that option

t_3 wrote:

DrHemulen wrote:* Option to group textures (and set size) by model and OC material. Maybe select model/material from the renderer viewport

it might be possible to directly extend the viewport context menu (or add another tool) to achieve this without cross relations to the textures tab. don't know if this would be easy to understand.
just in case you haven't noticed it: you can sort the table by each of its columns (asc/desc) by just clicking the respective header. not exactly grouping, but it'll give a little more oversight already...

I konw about sorting, that's why I got greedy, wanting to sort by model Is it possible to select multiple textures and apply changes to them in one go?

DrHemulen wrote:I konw about sorting, that's why I got greedy, wanting to sort by model Is it possible to select multiple textures and apply changes to them in one go?

well, sorting isn't easily possible, as maps may be used with different scene objects; but probably adding a filter (like for the mat trees) will do the trick.

allowing row selects currently isn't possible too, since every cell already contains a click or hover aware control element; but at least a size limit switch for the whole scene will save some clicks once there; imo i need to rethink the whole thing anyway, as there is maybe a little (too) much stuffed into that table.

what i have generally missed a bit is, that the purpose the textures tab should serve often needs to allow adjustments before vram is already maxed out (like i.e. to change the size factor for ds textures that are not yet used for oc mats).

still trying to figure out how this could be handled best. the bottom line most probably is, that the textures tab will see some reworking in one of the following updates, to make it more useful..