Material copies with proxies

[toniboni]

I'm really for bothering everybody here but this is really super important for my workflow:

Please, please bring up the popup when importing already existing proxy materials by dragging a new proxy using the same materials into the scene. When using a standard geometry I have 3 options: use existing material, replace existing material and rename material. This is super practical! If I am inserting 10 proxy variations of the same tree using the same materials, I will receive 10 copies of this one material! They are created by vray and automatically numbered: ie Bark #1, Bark #2, Bark #3 and so. But they are all the same material. For complex scenes this makes a quick reediting of ie the bark color nearly impossible. So please, please bring back this simple popup.

Or like Micha has suggested: Allow to merge copies of the same material to one. This would be an acceptable workaround.

Thanks
Toni

[Hanno]

Dear vray team,
i have actually the same problem with Proxy-Materials: Here a sceenshot:

Furthermore can I change the scaling of a .vrmesh file? Some proxies are scaled x1000 or x0.001. I work for architecture in meters and it is a bit annoying to scale everything again and again. Maybe as a proxy setting: Scaling and x,y,z position when inserting.

Thanks for the great work!
I love to use V-Ray for Rhino. By the way a larger library would be nice

Best regards
Hanno

[nikoleta.garkova]

Hi guys, I've logged an improvement request (internal ID number - VRW-2935) so our devs can have a look and see if we can find an elegant solution. Thanks. Will let you know when there are any updates on the matter.

[toniboni]

Hi Nikoleta,

Good to hear, thanks for letting me know.

[konstantin_chaos]

Hi guys,

We are currently experimenting with ways to improve this specific workflow.
If we achieve something good we'll make it available in one of the next V-Ray 5 updates.

Regards,
Konstantin