Forum: Blender


Subject: Newbie to Blender - ex Lightwave user - question on materials library

markschum opened this issue on May 03, 2017 · 9 posts


RobynsVeil posted Fri, 05 May 2017 at 5:22 AM

markschum posted at 8:14PM Fri, 05 May 2017 - #4304289

OK, I found a tutorial that might work. I will give it a ret and see. At the moment I have about 50 materials for cycles but that meant 50 blend files to link every time I open Blender.

Yikes! You might want to make your own library. Instead of doing a link, I'd be appending and assigning the material to, say, a vertex group or mat zone of some mesh: you could give the mat zone or vertex group a similar name to the material in that .blend. (I know, not a very clear explanation). I guess what I'm driving at is that you'll be able to multi-select shaders and materials from one "object" to link or append to your new project.

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