Sync Mat. Sync color between Solid mode and Render mode

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Hi Blender Artists,

This is my first addon (Thanks, GPT!).
It’s as simple as it gets and not entirely unique, but I hope many of you will find it really handy.

Unlike some other addons, it doesn’t clutter standard menus or hotkeys and is located in a convenient place for quick access.

Check out a short video review here:

Overview:

Sync Mat is a lightweight addon for Blender that simplifies syncing Base Color and Alpha between Shading and Viewport Display.

Features:

  • Base Color Sync: Works for active materials, selected objects, or all objects in the scene.
  • Alpha Sync: Handles transparency syncing the same way.
  • Quick Access:
    • Right-click on Base Color or Alpha.
    • Tooltip shows these shortcuts:
      • Click – Active material.
      • Shift + Click – Selected objects.
      • Ctrl + Click – Entire scene.

If you’re interested, you can download the addon on my Patreon for free (limited time).
In the future, I might offer it for a small price to support the development of new addons.

Download here

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That’s interesting… this even works in belnder 3.6. I thought “seeing” something like this some time before but i do not remember correctly.

The user @BVP seems to had something similar over ten years ago:

Also there seems to be a more complex “variant” (haven’t tested yet.):

( There seems to be a lot of seems here. :wink: )

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Hi, thanks for the feedback!

Yes, I’m aware that similar solutions have existed, and I mentioned at the start of the post that I don’t claim to be entirely original.

I know of a few add-ons that include similar functionality, though I haven’t come across the one by @BVP, which seems to be much more functional than mine. I do agree that the logic is quite similar, probably because it’s simply the most optimal approach.

Blender is such a vast and rapidly evolving ecosystem that it’s hard to keep track of all the add-ons, especially those created many years ago. My goal with this add-on was mainly practical — to create a tool that fits my current tasks and workflow.

I’m glad to hear that it’s useful even in older versions of Blender, such as 3.6.

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I meant it more like this

There was something “long before” and i also heard about this… although something like this is very usefull i myself investigated this no further (or couldn not keep track also :wink: ) so:

Thanks for this :+1:

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