[Bf-committers] Adding material slot behaviour - proposal

Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com zanqdo at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 20:23:23 CEST 2011


I agree, either make a link of the same material or just leave the
material slot unused. Making copies of the same material is pretty
weird and messy

Daniel Salazar
3Developer.com



2011/4/2 Jonathan Williamson <jonathan at montagestudio.org>:
> Hi there,
>
> Recently something changed such that when you add a new material slow to an
> object that already has a material, it duplicates the previous material into
> the new slot. The previous behavior was to create a new slot that was linked
> to the same material. Personally I find this new behavior to be very
> frustrating as I am constantly ending up with ten copies of of the same
> material that I then need to manually remove by SHIFT + Left Clicking on the
> "X" and then reloading the file. When rendering models without textures I
> generally use 3-4 materials applied to all objects as a means of visually
> separating the surfaces, thus why I am using the same materials over and
> over again.
>
> My proposal would be to change this back such that when you add a new
> material slot it either adds a new slot and links to the previous material,
> OR it adds a new empty slot which would allow you to either choose the old
> material or add a new one without ever duplicating anything. If you want to
> duplicate a material (such as when you want to use one material as a
> starting point for another) then you can just press the "Make Single User"
> button.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jonathan Williamson
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