Blender 2.83 losing material after separating mesh by parts

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This is a bug I don’t understand, usualy when I split parts of the objects it keeps all the materials and the shaders they have.
I was trying to change user prefs \ settings to link materials to: Object \ Object Data etc, does not help.

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I’ve never tried this before but have you ever tried separating by materials?

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It looks to be caused by materials on the robot being linked to object instead of the mesh datablock. I just tested here and indeed in that case, if you separate something that’s using a material slot other than first one, it gets no material.
Whether it’s a bug, I don’t know. Might be a good idea to report it anyway though.

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All the options act the same way

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Thank you, I found it as a bug.