Request for Blender feature: a "Link Material"-node!

I badly need a “link material”-node.
I just recently figured it, it does not exist in Blender/Cycles.
It’s really hard for me to grasp why such a feature, which we could ALL make us of, does not exist in Cycles!!!

In short I need a node that links another material into my material settings, so when I change this linked material setup, it changes them on all materials that links to this material.

This makes it easier and faster for those who have lots of materials, and want some basic material settings, which we don’t want to change on all of our different materials.

Ie. I want the same glossiness to be .0224 on all my materials. If I later want to change it to .2, I have to do it on each and every other material that needs this glossiness to be .2 instead of .0224. This is really annoying and tedious and has no place in an advanced CG application which Blender is!

Use node groups http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Reference/Nodes/Node_Groups

Thanks. Then it DOES exist after all :slight_smile:

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