QUOTE(jbravado @ 01/21/09, 01:15 AM) [snapback]299295[/snapback]
I had a request from a coworker to produce a UI of an image thumbnail viewer. You'd be able to click the thumbnails and have them map to an environment sphere in the scene.
Open the visor, if you put in .swatches folder and small iff files sith .swatches extensions it creates thumbnails for your inages. you can also drag and drop renders on top of files to generate thumbnails. The files are very simply just inported on click, they also support drag and drop. Maya also allows them to be scripts which are easy to generate.
Visor also zooms as much as you want so if you put very big swatches you can zoom in on them. Also image formats auto matically zoom.
Thus if you put lightning environments in theese files with simple export of as a on load script they will get executed just like your coworker wants and you need to do NO SCRIPTING because its built in.
Also you can dock visors to the hypershade for shader libraries, or anywhere really. I think its the most neglected maya tool by the way.
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swatchDisplayPort produces
Yup tahts what visor does. Im supprised you havent used visor for anything yet.