I’m a relatively new user and have been playing around with learning about material assignments, particularly on objects with hierarchy (multi-level groups and components). I’ve been doing a combination of reading docs and experimenting on my own since that type of mix works best for me. Let’s tak…

You can also select the “Default Material” (aka no material) in the material browser. (If you think of it as no material or undefined material rather than a default material the inheritance from the parent container makes much more sense.) [2018-03-05_08h34_07]

Thanks for the info/reply! Yep, I realized that ‘default material’ is essentially ‘no material’ but there has to be a name for it. Yeah, figured you could also do this via mat editor, but thanks for explicitly pointing it out. I guess my mention of ‘entity info’ was due to the fact that I sort of…

It’s worth pointing out the natural hierarchy of how geometry takes materials. A material painted directly on a face will override a material painted on a component and that will override the parent component and so on. This gives you the ability to set up components that can have easily changed s…

[image] jonr: Btw, this is a bit of a diversion from my question, but it does have to do with the material editor: Doesn’t there need to be some sort of ‘put material in scene / to scene’ command? Over the last week when reading up on dynamic components and material assignments, I’ve come acro…

[image] eneroth3: To add a material to the model you need to add it to a drawing element. There’s no other way to load it to the model’s own material list. On the PC you can add materials to the In Model materials list however without them being applied to faces in the model, they are suscept…

Didin’t know that! I still wouldn’t use it though because of the high risk of the material being purged.

Yeah, I overlooked that right-click menu too! Nice tip, thanks. Another way I noticed you can do this that I discovered after I posed the question is this: Open the Secondary Selection Pane and you can drag and drop a material into the ‘In Model’ group. You can do it in both directions, Primary…

Thanks for this; it’s definitely consistent with what I’ve been discovering on my own but it’s a very handy model to use to help clarify everything. So, I suppose a way to describe this or look at it is this: ‘local assignments’, win out over assignments that are ‘further away’. In other words, l…

Box: After playing around with all of this, there is only one thing that doesn’t work as I would have expected, so here’s a question for you: Let’s say that you have 3 instances of a component. Why is it is that a material assignment to one instance doesn’t get propagated to the other two? They a…

[image] jonr: Why is it is that a material assignment to one instance doesn’t get propagated to the other two? To make changes to a component, you must be inside its wrapper. And until you drill down to the geometry, you aren’t inside the component. The same applies to changing the size of a …

Material assignment & multi-level components

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DaveR March 6, 2018, 12:43am 15

I don’t know if you should be curious but if you are, Box made a nice tutorial.

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