.json auto appended to shader family

[SpiderPig]

Some of my shader families have the extension .fam and when loading the material it will fail to load the shader family because it's appending .json to the end.  Can it be made so that if the extension is specified it doesn't append .json to the end?

Error: Failed to read file "C:/UltraEngine/Projects/TheSeventhWorld/Shaders/Materials/MyFamily.fam.json"

Material:

{
	"material":
	{
		"version": 100,
		"color": [ 1.0,  1.0,  1.0,  1.0 ],
		"emission": [ 0.0,  0.0,  0.0 ],
		"metallic": 0.0,
		"roughness": 0.0,
		"transparent": false,
		"occlusionInfo": true,
		"occlusionScale": 1.0,
		"normalScale": 1.0,
		"shaderFamily": "MyFamily.fam"
	}
}

[SpiderPig]

Hey @Josh just wondering if this is actually a bug or I should change my files to all use .json?  Thanks.

[Josh]

The material files currently just store the name of the shader family. They do not store the "Shaders" folder to the path, even though the files are located there.

I can't say exactly why but it feels intuitively right to me.

So explicitly declaring the file extension also feels like a strange thing to do.

[SpiderPig]

I name my json files .mat and .fam so I can see the difference without having to open them, but it's no big deal.  I'll make it work.

[SpiderPig]

Okay so I see now it's trying to load it from the shaders folder too... I see what your doing for the standard materials and the shader family's for Ultra but I don't think its a good idea.  Ultra needs to be flexible.  I want my shaders and textures in one folder.  I don't want to split the materials and textures into one and then my custom shaders into another.  I think we should be able to define a path because it is, after all, a file.

[Josh]

I already started doing this for materials. Undecided on shader families.

[SpiderPig]

It makes sense to make everything relative to the executable so we can just define a shader family as "Shaders\MyFamily.json" or "Materials\MyMaterial\MyFamily.json".

[Josh]

Well, the way things are right now there is no need for a file requester. You can just select the item you want from the combobox, which is much simpler.

[SpiderPig]

Do you mean this?

I don't see how this takes into account making our own shaders though.

[Josh]

You make a good point.

[Josh]

The design of this feature has been changed.