How would I join several objects so they would all keep their separate colors. If I simply select and Ctrl+J them the colors go all wonky.
i juist tryed it with 2 cubes with different mat and i worked fine.
do you have a blend file we can look at
Here ye go.
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Aha! The colors looked way different in object mode, but when I rendered it they were normal. Then I removed all double vertices, recalculated normals and then the colors were correct in object mode too.