2.6X - where have all the materials gone?

Support Materials and Textures
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Hi,

I made a few materials and successfully assigned them to my default cube.

As soon as I make a new object or click on another object, all my materials disappear and they can only be used for that one cube.

Clearly, something has changed in B 2.6X from 2.4X (or even 5X I forget) but what? Am I missing something really obvious?

Thanks,
Marco :slight_smile:

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Click on this button in the Material panel of the new object :
http://i.imgur.com/OlnaS.jpg

It will list all the existing material you already created, so you can assign one of them to the new object.

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Sweet!

The last place I would have looked but hard to unsee now. Thanks!

Marco :slight_smile:

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Also, for an apparently random reason I can’t assign any material to some objects…
In this case – the default cube and any object I copy from it.

Edit: I kind of ‘fixed’ the cube by clicking on one of the slots and then on another one, weird.

Edit02: At a loss - something’s weird about the default cube and how it deals with materials.

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There is nothing different about the default cube than any other object. You need to give more info than that if you want any help. Show screenshots/screencast, blend file, all the normal things you include in support questions.

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Well… You obviously haven’t fully understood how the material panel works.

1st: why do you add so many empty materials to begin with ? I see you click on “+” “+” “+”…

If you assign several materials to one mesh, that’s in order to have some faces display one material and other faces display other materials.
What i see you do is apply 4 materials to the same mesh, but without assigning the materials to particular faces. So in effect only the material at the top of that “material stack” is used !

That’s why your 1st cube remains grey. If you want it completely blue, just assign ONE material to that cube, ie the blue one.

Sorry if i am not clear, but looking at that video, it seems it is completely obscure in your head. If you have Skype, you can contact me (i speak german too), as i think it’ll be easier that way.

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Indeed I think I haven’t fully understood 2.6 yet… I just made many empty slots so I wouldn’t have to create them later. Hadn’t an idea it was all going on the same cube. lol:D

So different from 2.4X. But well worth the trouble for the a few other things.

I forget my Skype ID but I think it’s Bonteburg or Marco Naujokat. I’m unlikely to pester you about this problem anymore but feel free to add me.

Thanks a lot!
Marco