Material Library Organization

[MoonDoggie]

Curious to see how everyone keeps their material library files organized.

My initial thoughts were separate interiors and exterior materials and structure the material names like this

CLASSIFICATION - LOCATION - TYPE - NAME - Descr

So like a normal wood floor might be:

WOOD - FLOOR - Oak

Variations of the same floor might be

WOOD - FLOOR - Oak - Polished
WOOD - FLOOR - Oak - Old
WOOD - FLOOR - Oak - Matte

What do you all do?

-Moon

[pixelstudio]

We have mapped our maps directory on the server to a network path, so for example X:
Then all materials are saved in maps by theire type
soo
wood
metal
stone

then subdivided in different levels, so
wood > indoor
wood > outdoor

We don't change name or something. thats just to much work

[jonasa]

We do exactly as pixelstudio:

Mapped drive M: and maps divided into categories. Furthermore we add a postfix on filename for BUMP, MASK, SPECULAR etc.

We also have IES lights and Proxies mapped on the same ressource

... it doesn't mean its not messy, though

[MoonDoggie]

Excellent, thanks for the help