Blender 2.5 alpha 2 load materials

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took 1 week to figure out how to do it

download your material–remember where it is saved

open blender

go file–LINK!!! not APPEND!!!
go to where file is saved–open the molder called material

select the material
then in the upper right hand of the screen select link

then in your material section there is a very small sphere on the left of the material selection–toggle the small sphere–it is here where your downloaded material is

i know no way to multi select from the downloaded material folder many selections

hope tis help others

peter

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just a note on this - if you Link and not append you will not be able to edit the material as it is linked from an external file

for character rigs linking is a good thing - but for materials I would tend to append because they always need tweaking for the lighting

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i know no way to multi select from the downloaded material folder many selections

Select with RMB, same as the 3D window. If they’re stacked you can RMB-Drag select.

This belongs in Basic and Interface.

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