2.49: how to get rid of different instances of the same image in UV editor

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Hey,

I was wondering if there’s a way to deal with the following situation:

I made a ‘repository’ .blend with a big plane using a big “multi”-texture (a handful of streets of different widths, a selection of intersections) and some small objects using parts of the same texture (say a narrow plane that’s going to be a 20 m street)…am I still making sense? Hehe!

So say I have this other project and I want a 20 m street, I “append or link” it from the repository. So far so good! At some later point I decide I’m going to have a diferent piece of my texture, I append it and all of a sudden it says “material.001” – not a problem, just assign the “proper” material to it, it’ll say 0material.001, save over, next time you opn it it’s gone – no clutter!

But I can’t seem to get rid of the copy of the UV texture in the UV editor.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Marco :smiley:

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UV map seems to stay with the object once created. It is not listed in as an entity when you append or link to that object. It comes with it like a ghost. Once UV is made, it is a part of object that can not be separated. It is the soul of object you know.

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but you can go into 2.5 and delete theses any time!

happy 2.5

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The material can be removed from the library, one can delete one by one or Delete all.

  1. Click the" Delete from library materials from the library", or remove a single mapping.
  2. Click the "Clear Material Library "(Clear Material Library) to remove all the materials and textures.
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Thanks all! :smiley:

This library thing sounds interesting. I wasnt aware of it.

2.5 is looking more tempting all the time too, if it wasn’t for the super slow flymode. But maybe that’s getting used to it.