Joined meshes change textures

Support Materials and Textures
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I have created a ring with a diamond in Blender. There are two different textures; metal for the ring, glass for the diamond. When I render this everything is fine. However, when I go to animate this the meshes of move. However, when I join the meshes together, the textures darken and as a result the diamond looks almost black.

I have used YafaRay but was wondering if anybody else has had this same problem when joining meshes and rendering in Blender.

Any advice would help greatly. Thanks

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I don’t think you can just join things and hope for the best. Once joined, you need to specify which faces get what texture.

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Thanks for the reply. The two textures look just right