Extra Textures in "User contributed assets"

[MTKnife]

Would it be possible to add slots for additional textures (or actually, materials) to the "User contributed assets" section? After all, MakeHuman supports them. Yes, frankyaye has been adding them to his clothes by putting extra diffuse texture in other slots, but anyone wanting to use them has to copy and edit "mhmat" file, and there's only room for a few extras--and putting them in those slots makes the slots unusable for their original purposes.

[learning]

I requested this pretty much from day one of the contribution section. IIRC, joepal promised to add this feature eventually, when he figures out how to make it work in the database or whatever.

[joepal]

It's rather a case of finding the time to do it. I already spent most of the days programming on three different governmental contracts, so doing some programming to relax when I get home usually does not happen.

Also, we're discussing a more sensible asset packaging system. It's doesn't make sense to have to upload many separate files for something that is in fact one thing. But that'd mean reconstructing the download areas too.

[duststorm]

Indeed there really is a need for a better distributable format now that we have user created content.
A package format is planned (as described at http://bugtracker.makehumancommunity.org/issues/273 ) but it's not implemented yet.
It will probably be something for the 1.2 release.

[MTKnife]

That proposal actually looks pretty straightforward to implement, if you stick with the simple version.

[frankyaye]

perhaps it were a way to give us 5 or 10 slots for preview, material, diffuse, mhmat and thumb until we have a new system.