GH - Material from Project - List Sorted Alphabetically?

[paul-twoatsix]

Simple really. Why is the drop down list in the grasshopper "Material from Project" component in a really random order rather than alphabetically? It makes it so much harder to quickly select the material I want. I can only presume this is built in to how grasshopper collects information from rhino and is to do with a material ID# or the order in which the materials were created / added to the document!?



The closest I can get to a work around solution at the moment is to use the Human "Material Table" component sorted via a "Text Sort" component and slected via a Human "Item Selector" component then plugged in to the Vray "Material from Project" component. The limitation is that the "Material Table" component can't see Vray materials that aren't present in the scene (i.e. already applied to an object).

[Peter.Chaushev]

Thank you for your request, Paul!
Currently, all V-Ray materials are sorted in the V-Ray Materials from Project dropdown list the way they appear as plugin objects in Rhino. In short - neither alphabetically, nor by order of creation.

This dropdown list will be ordered alphabetically in the next V-Ray 5 for Rhino update we publish.


Kind regards,
Peter

[paul-twoatsix]

Thanks Peter.Chaushev It's a little thing, but it'll make a difference once there are more than a few materials in your project.

[konstantin_chaos]

This issue has been fixed in V-Ray 5 for Rhino, update 2.2

[paul-twoatsix]

Thanks guys!!