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Nebula Texture Plugin; ability to have several textures for the same object

Open Atque opened this issue 7 months ago • 3 comments

Unless I'm missing something important, users don't have the ability to have several textures for a single object, and toggling them from the "manage" list. Let's say I have two really good, yet different photos of the Andromeda Galaxy that I want to display. It would be very nice to select which to be shown from the list of textures.

Atque avatar Jun 10 '25 06:06 Atque

This might need a switch/selector to "replace/override built-in textures by multiple sets of user textures". Maybe not even as plugin. Should it be even stackable? But I still wait for someone to come up with a large set (say, at least 100 Messier-class objects) of coordinate-referenced hand drawings before I see fundamental motivation to actually developing this.

@ultrapre ?

gzotti avatar Jun 10 '25 08:06 gzotti

Thanks for your feedback. Setting visibility for individual stickers is indeed a more nuanced approach—and sorry for my late reply! I will explore its feasibility in future development, although currently it seems quite challenging to implement within the existing code framework.

ultrapre avatar Jun 22 '25 00:06 ultrapre

It seems that I will have to postpone the plugin update until at least v25.4...

ultrapre avatar Sep 20 '25 14:09 ultrapre