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Idea #288: Assigning materials to a mesh

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Written by madmesh the 7 Dec 10 at 12:33. Category: Texturing & Materials. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
A material can be assigned to to a single face or a selection of faces. The current method of doing this for materials is functionally a duplicate of how vertex groups are assigned.
Tags: group material mesh vertex

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dna (Developer) wrote on the 11 Dec 10 at 01:49
Isn't that what UV mapping does?

madmesh wrote on the 13 Dec 10 at 03:24
UV mapping is for textures, what I mean is for materials. To be specific multiple materials on one mesh.

To clarify:
http://i443.photobucket.com/albums/qq152/madmesh/proposal_assign_materials.jpg

FreeMind wrote on the 20 Dec 10 at 10:26
Go to the Data tab, select your vertex group, click select, it will select the vertexes in the vertex group, then go to the materials tab and create another material for the vertex selection.

FreeMind wrote on the 20 Dec 10 at 10:27
How ever, this can't be done automatically, so you could edit the vertex group and it would instanty assign the material to the group. Would be neat.

madmesh wrote on the 23 Dec 10 at 15:16
What I was thinking about was more along the lines of replacing the existing method with vertex groups.


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