Adding a note to a material

[robw]

Hi, is there a way I can add a text note/comment to a material?

Reason being, in order to get my wireframe material to render polygons and not triangles, I added an Arnold Properties to the object, and turned on subdivisions, then set to zero. But I'm likely to forget that next time I need to do it, so adding a note/comment to the material would be very useful.

Thanks

[madsd]

Not the closure, but you can type up a header in a node that does nothing except parsing the original signal through and call it something like REMEBER.

You format the code like in html with breaks and such, headers.

shader REMEMBER
[[    string help =        "<h3>REMEMBER!!!!</h3>"
                        "Do the thing about colors<br>"
                        "Don't forget to feed the cat<br>"
                        "Pancakes taste good<br>"
                        "End of discussion<br>",
]]
(
    color In = 0,
    output color Out = 0,
    output float FOut = 0,
)
{
    Out = In;
    FOut = Out[0];
}

[madsd · Accepted solution]

Here is a slightly more complex integration using QT.
You would need a .ui file for this kind of formatting.

Also here, this can be done as a passthrough node.
you cannot add a unique note to the Material it self, so just do it on a dummy shader.

[robw]

Very good. Thanks