Hey, I just began the gus the gingerbread man tutorial for the first time (yes, I skipped over it before…), mostly to begin learning about blender’s character animation system, and I ran into something a little surprising during the modeling/materials stage. I noticed that after I had set the map-to settings on the grain material (noise texture) for one object, if I assigned the same material to another object, the default blender map-to settings would be present. Is there an easy way to keep the map-to settings the same across multiple objects without having to go and reset them manually, every time I want to re-apply them to another object?
If you assign an existing material from the Material Datablock Menu (MA:) it should, actually it will come with all the original materials settings.
In other words Wood is Wood on both objects not Wood on one and Wood.001 on the other.
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That is how I would think it would work, and going back now, it appears that is how it did in fact work. The same material did end up having two users when I looked back on it, which leaves me a lttle stumped… In any case, it is working as expected now, a change in to one instance affects the other-even on the map-to pannel. perhaps I was confused before. On a lighter note, gus is now happily jiggling… Yay!
Thanks for the help.