grendizer Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Hello all, I'd like to know if I can personalize the Material Palette by adding my own materials. Also, where would this personalized material palette be stored in the hard drive, so I can back it up and reload it on other PC's or Windows re-installs? Thanks Gz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davpe Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 late reply, but: you should be able to manage your materials through Gallery Manager. Gallery file is saved in your user folder and can be easily transferred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendizer Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 Thanks for the reply even if it is late! I found the gallery manager. The files are not in my user folder but in the install folder. Should I copy one of these file to my user folder so I can start my personalized Material Library? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davpe Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 (edited) no, you can just right-click your material and select Save>To Gallery. In the dialog you can setup various properties of the gallery item like what file and what gallery category you want to save to. Or you can also directly drag'n'drop into gallery list. if you create a new item it will be automatically saved into Custom.gal in your user folder. and by the way you can save any node/subnet into gallery. very efficient for keeping/sharing node networks of any kind without having to turning it into digital asset Edited September 11, 2018 by davpe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendizer Posted September 11, 2018 Author Share Posted September 11, 2018 (edited) Hello Davpe, thanks for the info, I manager to do most of the things you advised. Now i have my own gallery *.gal file. I imported my gallery into the gallery manager, and it remains there after I restart Houdini. If I want to go forward I guess I have to add this gallery also in the material palette? Well it does not seem to work. After I click on the "Import gallery file" button and select my file, the personal gallery does not appear in the tree view. I can drag a material from gallery manager to material palette, but not a personalized material folder hierarchy... Also how can I edit a material in a personalized gallery? After I drag and drop a yellow material from gallery manager to material palette, change its color to blue, how can I save this change? Thanks Edited September 11, 2018 by grendizer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davpe Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 well that's interesting, i would expect your custom gallery file to appear in material palette automatically. to be honest, I don't ever use material palette so I don't have an answer to this issue. I would report this to sidefx as it looks like a bug to me. if you want to make a change to any item that already is in the gallery, you have to save it to the gallery as a new entry, and delete the original one (if that's what you mean). this is a bit clumsy but not a big deal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendizer Posted September 12, 2018 Author Share Posted September 12, 2018 Thanks Davpe. In the Sidefx forum they say it's better to use HDA, what do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davpe Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 (edited) I think it depends what you want. HDAs are certainly an option but Gallery is great if you want to share something simple real quickly. And you won't be able to put HDA into Material palette either. The way I work is that I use Gallery files primarily, and if I decide to make it a more polished tool then I turn it into HDA when I feel I have tested the functionality enough (I tend to make a lot of revisions before I'm satisfied, which is easier with gallery files). Anyways lot of my tools are just quick setups, quite messy, and I know I will need those only temporarily for the current project for instance. And after that I just toss them. Making HDAs and HDA versions all the time would be just too much hassle. But it depends what works for you really... Edited September 12, 2018 by davpe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendizer Posted September 13, 2018 Author Share Posted September 13, 2018 Thanks Davpe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diorn Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Digging up this old thread to ask if it is possible to recover a gallery category or item accidentally deleted with wrong mouse click? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howitzer99 Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 (edited) If you have previously saved a new version of an existing gallery, Houdini will copy the old one into a backup directory in the <HOUDINI>\gallery\ folder. If this was a new item that was delete, you might not be able to. Was it thrown into the trash maybe? One other thing to check, would be to see if you gallery was save into the Custom.gal file. This is where any gallery that isn't given a unique name is saved into by default. From the file size, it look like there are quite a few of mine that are being saved into a single gallery file. Edited February 5, 2020 by Howitzer99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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