(2025-03-13, 16:58)Travis Cobbs Wrote: That's a good point. Since MATERIAL allowed params, I thought that adding a new finish of FABRIC could also allow params, but while this may be the case, it could indeed trip up parsers that are not expecting params to be present on anything other than MATERIAL. Based on this, I guess a better proposal would be to add:
- MATERIAL FABRIC
- MATERIAL FABRIC VELVET
- MATERIAL FABRIC CANVAS
- MATERIAL FABRIC STRING
Option 1 would be used for minifig capes.
I would like to limit the number of MATERIAL variants though. Limited to things truly variable like GLITTER and SPECKLE are.
Generic materials as found in real LEGO should have their own static name (like METAL, PEARL, etc) as much as possible.
This saves us from having to define parameters, supplying a description of feel and look should be enough for people trying to e.g. write a shader for it.
So in short do these materials really need parameters or could we do with just FABRIC, VELVET, CANVAS and STRING as-is (like chrome etc).