I am trying Blender and skipping around tutorials. I did an intro to blender modelling which made a cup, plate and donut so thats started.

I am having trouble coming to terms with materials. I understand I think that the internal render engine and cycles use different material.

I learned that you can link materials from another blend file. I have been collecting materials that are free as I find them. I have a script for Daz Studio to Blender that seems to work quite well.

It seems , and I hope I am wrong, that you have to load materials for eacg scene and there is no central materials library that you can use in any scene.

What am I missing ?

thanks for any help.