Dev:Ref/Outdated/Proposals/UI/Info Architecture/Shading-Material

Shading/Material buttons IA Draft

1. Material datablock (no changes required)

• material preview
• preview settings
• Material datablock name/menu, assigned object and material group chooser
• Material copy/paste buffer

2. Material Settings

• General Settings: Traceable, Wire, Zinvert, Env, No Mist, Full OSA, Amb slider
• Settings related to shading in specific: Shadeless, Vcol Light, VCol Paint, Texface, Radio
• Settings related to shadows: Receive Shadows, Only Shadow, TraShad, Bias

3. Shading

• Halo / material chooser
• Diffuse shader / colour swatch
• Diffuse ref/rough/etc
• Spec shader / colour swatch
• Spec hard/Refl/etc.
• Emit
• Translucency

4. Ramps

• As current ramps panel

5. Transparency & Reflection

• Reflection settings (Mirror colour swatch, raymir toggle & raymir amount, fresnel/fac, raymir depth)
• Transparency settings (Alpha, raytransp/Ztransp toggle, IOR, fresnel/fac, depth, SpecTra, Zoffs)

6. Texture & Mapping

• Texture Channel chooser
• Texture datablock & copy/paste
• Texture mapping coords (in a menu)
• Object text field (when Object selected for mapping coords)
• X Y Z channel mapping
• Offset and Scale
• Projection (Flat, Cube, Tube, Sphere) in a menu

7. Texture Mapping

• Mapping Channels(Color, Nor, etc etc)
• Texture color swatch
• Texture Color and Variable Sliders (col, nor, var, disp, etc)
• Blending Mode menu
• Texture settings (Stencil, Negative, RGBtoInt)

Proposed ordering (tentative):

(1/2), (3/4/5), (6), (7)

= 4 tabbed panels in total

_key: "+" combine in same panel, "/" separate panels, tabbed together_

-- DeveloperWikiMattEbb - 09 Sep 2004