Multiple materials

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#1

Ok, Blender has me pissed off again. Somewhere along the way while trying to assign materials to the different panels of my car, first I just let the software assign generic names to them, so each panel had a different name such as “Material.001.” Then I went back and selected all the panels (separately) that were to be the body color and give it a specific name, and so on. Now each different object has more than one material assigned to it, and I didnt push the Nodes button so I dont know how that happened. But I am now trying to clean up the material list by going through each object and unlinking the generic materials so I can save/reload the project and hopefully the unused materials will be gone - but, problem. One of the panels contains a side marker light which was integrated into the front fender mesh, and I had to separate vertices. I got the marker light the color I wanted, but the fender will not show the material I have selected. It shows in the list of materials for that mesh, but the model is still the default grey material. How do I fix this? Thank you.

I would upload the .blend file, but it exceeds the limit of 976kb…??

#2

It seems as if your model is made up of several objects. A car can be made of a few number of objects, actually the car chassis can be only one object, depending on what you want it to do. I’m telling you this because I think multiple materials are used in a per object basis.

#3

Yes, that is correct, I modeled it in separate “panels” because I wanted it to resemble the way a real car is constructed so that individual panels can be modified. And also, yes, multiple materials are assigned to the multiple objects, and I want to get rid of all the materials that are generically named. I’m finding this to be right next to impossible to do. Especially the front fender.

Edit: Figured it out, I just deleted the material index for that object and went back and assigned the material from the list that I wanted again.

#4

How about considering an extended planning of the hierarchy before continuing your project? You can give the same name to all of the object’s hierarchical items, object, mesh, material, texture…