How do I merge base materials in 2.93

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1

2.79 had an extension available to merge base materials, that is, merge

Material
Material.001

together into just

Material

What is the way to do this in 2.93?

2

It’s still available in Blender 2.8+ as an operator function like in Blender 2.79.

Blender 2.79

  • SPACEBAR → Search (or S shortcut) → “merge base names”

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Blender 2.8+

  • F3 → “merge base names”

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3

Hmm… is this the addon Material Utilities (?) If activate then:

Shift-Q :star: Specials → :pencil2: Merge Base Names

(But i’m not sure how this does work :sweat_smile: .)
Anyway: Thanks for the discovery of this addon… :wink:

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4

Thanks you two. That worked. Got rid of most of my forked base names.