Materials Library

 
In this panel, the user will have five buttons, as shown in the material panel image below.
 
 
 
 
 
Manage Libraries
 
Clicking this button will display the Manage Library dialog, where the user can add new library(s), rename or delete existing ones.
 
 
 
 
The Manage Material Libraries dialog has more options. SimLab Composer, by default, comes with Composer materials library that has different
groups/materials types. In this dialog the user can export, import, or merge different material libraries. Material libraries will be exported in
(*.mlb) file format, and the packed libraries to import should have the same file extension.
 
Manage Material video tutorial
 
 
 
 
Share Contents
 
With this feature, sharing different resources is simplified significantly. The rule is clear: if a resource exists in a library, then it can be shared.
 
 
Resources can be:
  • Materials
  • HDRs
  • Models
  • Background Images
  • And even more...
 
 
To share a resource, just drag and drop it from a library panel to the area with the title Drop to Share and surrounded by orange dotted border,
which is located on the panel of  Sharing Resourced tab. This procedure is shown in the following image:
 
 
Sharing Resources tab includes the following control elements, as shown in the following image:
 
  • Drop to Share: It is an area where the user should drop in a resource.
  • Save Package: It is a button that let you to export and save a package to be shared with colleagues or sent to SimLab team.
  • Load Package: It is a button that let you to import a package into SimLab Composer.
     
 
 
 
The Sharing Resources tab displays a tick once an item is dropped into Drop to Share Area, indicating the
 operation is successfully finished.
 
 
 
Items of different types can be included in the same package.
 
 
Change View
 
The user can select the size of the items in the library (Large, Medium, or Small), icons with or without text.
 
 
Changes to SimLab Composer's GUI are saved when the user closes composer.