# reloading the material data file while paraview is running?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reloading-the-material-data-file-while-paraview-is-running/11069
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [December 23, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reloading-the-material-data-file-while-paraview-is-running/11069 "2022-12-23T14:48:23Z")
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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2023, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reloading-the-material-data-file-while-paraview-is-running/11069/2 "2023-01-02T09:40:42Z")

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Hi @David_Akeret

The material editor shoudl answer your needs:

> [@Proposal: PBR Material Editor](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/proposal-pbr-material-editor/6952):
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> Dear paraview community, we are currently developping at kitware europe a new paraview feature which adds an interface to edit OSPRay materials within the paraview GUI. It will: allows you to load a existing material library from a json file (such as [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/materials](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/materials)) add or delete material from that library brows through that library and make changes to the various properties of each material save the edited library see the current loaded material into a shader b…

Best,

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