egMatLib - A Material Library for Houdini

A Material Library for Houdini Mantra, Redshift and Arnold

Lightweight (Houdini-native) storing and loading of node networks
Save Redshift Material Builders, Principled Shaders, Mantra Materialbuilders and Arnold Materialbuilders
- Inside this nodes all objects are supported
Favorites
Adding and removing of categories
Searchable tags (use t: as a modifier ) and material-names
Open database (.json)
Material Preview
open HDAs for Redshift and Mantra for custom preview-images
Deletion of entries from the database (deletes also from disk)
Edit multiple materials at the same time via the Details-Pane
Easy adjustable custom preview and rendersize
ACES 1.2 support (Redshift Native, Mantra & Arnold need $OCIO)
Right Click Menus for adding materials quickly from the network pane
Importing to current network location (pwd()/matnet)
Double Click or right click for importing Materials into the scene
Easy installation with packages (see below)

Download or Clone this repository and unzip
Copy the provided MatLib.json to your houdini19.0/packages folder
Edit the line /home/elmar/MatLib to the location of your downloaded folder, e.g.: G:/Git/MatLib
Start Houdini

Open Pane (MatLib)
On first usage the pane will prompt you for a directory:
- Choose a safe directory --> this is where all your data will be stored
- You also can change this directory later from Library/Preferences
Use buttons for import/export from library
Right Click on Redshift Material Builder, Principled Shader or Material Builder to store a material
Double Click on a Material in MatLib-Pane to import
Use the table view to the right for edit of currently seleted material
Search Function also can search tags with t:yoursearchstring

Thanks to Rich Nosworthy for providing the ShaderBall-Setup - https://www.richnosworthy.tv

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