DYNAMAT (ADD-ON)

18/8/2016

Dynamat Full
Dynamat Lite
Material Packs

INFO

Dynamat Full comes with easy to use more then 30 materials
you can import them with a single click

install it like as any other addon ,
user preferences > addons> install from file > select zip

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INFO

Dynamat lite is an empty addon without any default materials

install it like as any other addon ,
user preferences > addons> install from file > select zip

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What is Dynamats ??

Dynamats is an Add - on which makes your shading work flow lot more easier,
i have been trying to develop an addon which helps us shading our scenes very fast and moreover. it gives us default materials to start with, and also you can add your own materials with it

many awesome blender -gods (developers) helped me making this add on , i hope everyone will like it

so now stop wasting your time shading your project from scratch ,

How does it work ??

Well, it works same like any other addon ,

install it and Turn it on then its just a matter of few clicks Select your material from the given list then press assign and

you're done :)

How many Shaders are given ??

Right now it has 32 DYNAMAT shaders, but it has option to add more shader packs

and i will release more shaders packs soon like 150 archviz shaders from ChocoFur and PBR shaders from BlenderBrit

How to add own Shaders ??

Its very simple , just select your shader And press Plus button ,

it will take some time , and after few seconds , you will have you shader in the thumbnail list ,

Dynamat supports both blender internal and cycles at the moment

Some FAQs

WHY ITS FREE ?

Because i feel there one few things still lacks in blender , which needs to be there for free , there are other better and paid addons for this , which has more features then this , but i think this is very basic need of everyone and it has to be free ,i tried it and i am using it , and i am very happy with it , i hope everyone will like it too

Code ISSUES ?

There might be Coding issues , because i was learning to code while making this addon , i got help from many developers , but still if you find any issue with code or you find any problem while using this addon , then i suggest you please stop using it . i will try my best to solve the issue if it has any then

FOR SUPPORT?

Yes you can always mail me at dragoneex@gmail.com , but i have spend a lot of my time developing this addon , i will try my best to help but i can not assure you any guarantee of solving the issue , i hope that everyone understand this

FUTURE SHADER PACKS?

yes , i have planned some shader packs too , i will release them in near future , and it will be free for all

What you cannot do with it ?

At the moment , you can not replace materials,
you can not get it back once you antecedently remove it
you can not add multiple materials at a time

Special Thanks To Akash Hamirwasia for helping and making this addon more awesome :)

you can follow and support him on his website

More Than 30 Shaders And lot more to come soon
and all this for FREE

Support me

44 Comments

Vyacheslav

3/11/2016 03:31:40 pm

Hi! I tried addon. Very easy to use (it is good). Little idea (may be good for large projects): button to link material from file.

Jack

4/11/2016 04:08:22 am

Hi! Great work! Love this add-on! And thanks for sharing!! Just one question (maybe even stupid): where does it stores by default the new materials I add? Thanks!!

Cchippy

4/11/2016 10:29:56 am

Love the function of the addon, however when I try to add one of my own materials with the (+) button, Dynamat basically recreates a scene with a back lit board, lights etc, switches to Blender render and gives an error in the console window (Thinks its attempting to create the thumbnail). This happens when I try to add a material without running blender with administrator privileges.

When I do run as admin, it adds my material to dynamat just fine, however it gets rid of my entire scene objects and hierarchy. Hope my feedback is clear and helpful. Love the addon again, especially the fact that its free! :) Great work!

Pratik Solanki link

4/11/2016 01:04:01 pm

yes you need admin rights to add materials , because it saves your material in your blender directory so i think that is in C drive , , it renders thumbnail in background but it didnt change the current scene objects by any how

Fred hystair

4/11/2016 11:02:54 am

Hi. I.ve been trying the addon and it works very fine and smoothly.
I have a suugestion that could improve it greatly: i work on several computers (desk and laptop) and it would be great to be able to choose the directory adress myself. I could for exemple place it on a dropbox and have a material bank always available.

Pratik Solanki

4/11/2016 01:04:52 pm

Yes thats planned for future release ,

Akash Hamirwasia link

4/11/2016 11:44:00 pm

Ooh! Next Update ;)

gandalf3

4/11/2016 11:44:16 am

Why is there a "full" and a "lite" version? What will be the difference once the lite version becomes available? And why does the full version require an email?

4/11/2016 01:07:22 pm

Both will be free , full means it will have 30 shaders in it , and lite means it will come with empty directory , basically main difference will be in size , full is 70 mb and lite will be 150kb ,

and email is required for just for the downloads info , no spam will be delivered , so dont worry ,

vibu link

8/11/2016 08:07:36 am

When is the lite version going to be released?

Javier DL

20/11/2016 08:53:50 pm

First off, thank you so much for sharing this amazing tool with the Blender community.
Unfortunately the textures are not showing once I render the meshes. They do show in the little preview window in the Blender Material tab, and the Dynamat's window of course. But when I render the meshes they appear with a flat colour, without the textures.
I am running Blender 2.78 in Ubuntu 16.04, 64bit
Any tips will be greatly appreciate it

Pratik solanki link

20/11/2016 09:52:26 pm

You first need to unwrap your model..
Press u and unwrap first.. Then you will see textures
I hope it helps

Javier DL link

21/11/2016 04:54:48 am

Thank you so much Patrik, that did it for sure! :)

amy

25/1/2017 12:36:44 am

all it does is make blender freeze

25/1/2017 06:53:57 am

hello Amy, can you share console output with me ? what error you get .., everyone tried here and no one got any issues like that . so might be something wrong at your end , but still can you share console output

BUNNY

27/1/2017 01:51:12 pm

Hi!

Thank you very much for this awesome add-on!
But I have this message when I want to assign a material of my own:

► Report: Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C\Users\Bunny\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\Dynamat\_init_.py", line 427, in execute with bpy.data.libraries.load(path) as (data_from, data_to):
OSError: load: C\Users\Bunny\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\Dynamat\dynamats\PBR_Metal.blend failed to open blend file

location: <unknown location>:-1 ◄

Everything seems okay in the folder "Roaming",
the problem comes in a folder already set (basic , fabric, liquid...) or in a folder I create.

Thank you in advance for your help!

28/1/2017 04:34:28 pm

Hi again!

I have understand what the problem is!

My PBR Metal shader was written with a "space" not with a "_" like "PBR_Metal".

Now with underscore instead of space bar, everything works fine!
Thank you again for this add-on, Blender is much simpler with it.

Ben

27/2/2017 07:38:35 pm

Thanks for the great addon. This is great. Please don't stop developing your great addon.

Yusuf

3/3/2017 01:57:49 pm

This might be dumb, but where is the addon.
i have installed from file and i have checked all of the rabs and i cannot find it.
also on usere preferences it is not showing up
Can you tell me why?
thanks

Miki

6/3/2017 11:11:59 pm

Thank you for this very nice and promising addon!

I just have a major issue with adding a new material. Even when running Blender with admin rights, after adding new material, the current blend file I'm working on gets totally ruined. The current scene is lost including all my objects and materials. Luckily, I didn't click save and after restarting Blender, my file was OK. I hope this could be fixed in future, because this way it seems very dangerous and you could easily lose what you are working on.

Also, is it possible to add a World Shader to the library. If not, I think it could be another useful feature :-)

BMF

12/3/2017 05:58:52 am

I've tried a few simple tests and this seems like a very useful add-on that can potentially speed of the texturing workflow. I haven't yet tried it on complex objects or scenes.

I have a couple of suggestions:

1. Naming: Some textures look similar and the preview is too small to distinguish the small details in the texture and the blend file name isn't very descriptive. Concrete 01, 02, 03 etc. doesn't help much so I'd like to add tags to a particular material so I can better describe it such as "Concrete, Old, Worn" or "Concrete, New, Smooth"

2. To make finding textures easier, I would suggest adding a search capability. This would compliment the texture naming and make it easier to find a specific texture. This would include searching for the tags a user has assigned to a material.

3. I like your first level hierarchy for categorizing textures, but I'd like to see one or two more. To avoid creating more subfolders when I add a texture, I would like to simply add tags such as "Tree, Bark, Oak" or "Tree, Dead", or "Tree, Bark, Palm, Queen". Too often the blend file name does not have sufficient information to find what I'm looking for and I end up having to try different materials to find the right one.

4. I'd like to tag materials as "Favorites" so I can keep track of the ones that I particularly want to use most often. I may several iron materials, but I'd like to tag one as my favorite so I know which it is.

Xeb

22/3/2017 03:08:21 am

Hi, I seem to be having some problems installing this add-on. I've installed it as suggested above, but its not appearing in Blender. Is this named 'Dynamat' under the add-on tab?

Andrey link

31/3/2017 03:14:54 am

this addon is awesome. it greatly speeds up my work. now i have over 600 materials all in one single place. thank you very much. but i wish to ask about addon like this wich can manage models, like this manages materials, to have all collection of models in one single place. is there any addon like this? thank you

Uanpis

21/7/2017 12:45:23 am

I feel bad using this wihout paying C:

Dan

22/8/2017 06:19:48 am

Great addon! Thank you

keshan

11/10/2017 08:51:30 pm

Great job! Is that a way i can put the HDIR map as a library ?

Loris

16/10/2017 02:16:55 am

Hello, In 2.79 sometimes when adding new material an dADD it to th elibrary, the current scene go to another completely void scene, with CTRL+Z you can return with th ematerial added, is something you alreedy know?

Thanks

Jason

1/12/2017 07:57:57 am

Is there a line in the code that I could change to point the script to the library on my network storage server?

WILLIAM AZEVEDO

22/2/2018 02:27:25 am

como faço para instalar este addons

Caue Rodrigues

19/4/2018 04:12:45 pm

Hello there, great tool indeed. I got an error when I try to add chocofur shaders on library.
It´s expected or something is wrong?
ps: Already tried with admin too.

Andrew Minor

23/7/2018 11:20:04 am

This is a very helpful tool. Thanks for writing it.

Is there a release date for the material packs?

Ivan H link

18/8/2018 11:32:20 pm

Good

Dustin

20/11/2018 07:29:53 am

I have installed this add on and i love it. I have made some tweaks such as adding a label that displays the currently selected material above the thumbs window. i now would like to make some changes to the matsetup.blend so that i can better represent the materials(custom preview objects per Catigory ex. Fabric). i would also like to change the thumb resolution. i have successfully changed the preview object in the matsetup.blend but cant figure out how to change the render resolution. changing the cycles settings does nothing. Can u give me any info regarding how the thums are generated(is it using blender render or maybe open gl)

20/11/2018 08:20:58 pm

hey man glad that you liked the addon ,
i need to check the code again . becuase its been years since i last use it .. i might recode it entirely .. but it will take time .. right now i am on holidays for few days .. i will check it after 1st dec .. hope thats fine

21/11/2018 06:01:16 am

That sounds great....Have a happy holiday.

23/11/2018 10:59:35 am

I have been making a few changes to this add-on. Still need to brush up on my python(its been a while). But i think i have a good thing going now. I may still have some questions for you regarding your add-on. But I also think that this would be the perfect starting point for a more flexible library (objects,worlds,textures). Would you be interested in helping me turn this into something that could manage more than just materials? i am a good coder but have never written a complete add-on.

18/12/2018 09:53:22 am

I am almost done with the changes i made to your awesome addon. Its has been an excellent refresher to python in blender for me. I will send you what i have as soon as it is complete.
* some UI changes
*Added confirmation dialog when deleting materials
*Added confirmation dialog when replacing materials
*Added Text label for name of currently selected material
*All render settings are now imported from the matsetup.blend (Makes it easy to have custom thumbs per sub category)
*All data from matsetup.blend is now removed from file after finishing the render
ALSO PLANED:
*search box
*confirmation when assigning materials that already exist
*options to "Link" or "Append"
*Add Category / Add Sub-Category buttons
*Edit matsetup button (opens matsetup for selected sub cat for easy access)
*Store all mats(per sub cat) in single .blend

I think that's it...Once complete i will use this as a template to build a World Manager that looks and feels the same.

18/12/2018 10:01:31 am

O yes and i also will add a custom path option in addon prefs to point to where you wish to store your lib

EkDor

6/5/2019 03:04:50 am

I bought this and install appears fine. But in the Add-ons list I get a message saying upgrade to 2.8x... I am using the latest version of 2.8b!!! How do i fix that?

12/7/2019 08:41:48 am

This addon was developed for version 2.79. I have a working 2.80 version that i have been working on for a couple of weeks now and is quite polished. However i am not sure where to post it. I would prefer to hand it over to Dragoneex to release here so it is easy for everyone to find. I do not require any credits for the work and would just suggest that it remains free.

12/7/2019 08:43:59 am

I have updated this addon for 2.80. just not sure where to post it.

12/7/2019 08:49:41 am

Do you think it would be a problem if i posted the _init_.py as text in this chat? you could then just copy and past over your _init_.py for the original addon.

Bob

12/8/2019 11:36:15 am

I would love to have a copy if you can! firebellystudios@outlook.com

This would make my transition to 2.8 much easier! Thanks

Gabriel

13/8/2019 07:05:49 pm

Hi =) It would be awesome if there was a way for you to share this with more people (post it on stack overflow, I'm not sure). I also upgraded to 2.8 and really miss this add-on =/

DYNAMAT (ADD-ON)

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Coming Soon

What is Dynamats ??

How does it work ??

How many Shaders are given ??

How to add own Shaders ??

Some FAQs

Special Thanks To Akash Hamirwasia for helping and making this addon more awesome :) you can follow and support him on his website

More Than 30 Shaders And lot more to come soon and all this for FREE

Support me

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Special Thanks To Akash Hamirwasia for helping and making this addon more awesome :)

you can follow and support him on his website

More Than 30 Shaders And lot more to come soon
and all this for FREE