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Example: Split Material by Mesh

The pop-up menu depends on the name of the material or texture clicked.

Material

• Right-clicking on a material name displays the following pop-up menu:



Create Shader...

Opens the Create Shader dialog.



Add a texture to the selected material. Select a TGA, JPEG, BMP, PICT, PNG, TIFF, EPIX, Photoshop, MOV, AVI or MPG file.

Delete the selected material or the selected texture linked to a material. Activates when the material is not associated with the geometry.

Shortcut: Hit the Back key.

Apply to All Instances

Applies the modified material of an object to all identical objects in the scene.

Reset to Default

Applies the original material to the object.

Adding Textures...

Open the dialog box and choose a TGA, JPEG, BMP, PNG, PICT or Photoshop file.

Merge Materials with Same Name

Materials with the same name will be replaced by the selected material.

Merge Materials with the Same Shader

Materials with different names but which have the same Shader are grouped under the same name.

Merge Vertex

Merges superposed points of the polygons using this material.


(Avoids problems of modeled object artefacts whose superposed points are not merged and allows polygons to be smoothed).

Show Normal

Display the normal of the geometry.


Reverse Normal

Reverse the normal face of the selected material.


Visible

• If unchecked, the material becomes invisible.

Cast Shadow

• If checked, the material casts shadows on the other elements.

Receive Shadow

• If checked, the material receives the shadows cast from other elements.

Delete All Unused Material IDs

Clears the materials that are not assigned to the geometry.

Delete

Deletes the selected material.

Split Material by Mesh

Using an applied material, the command creates as many as materials as meshes found in the list of materials.

Example: Split Material by

NB: Does not delete a material from the original model.

NB: The File > Use Reference File command does not recognize reassigned or renamed materials.

Texture

• Right-clicking on a texture name displays the following pop-up menu:



Delete

Deletes the related texture.

Merge Texture Origin

Upper Left, Upper Right, Lower Left, Lower Right and Center.

Determines the anchor point of the texture. In Preview mode, the origin is represented by a black cross.

In the thumbnail view, the anchor point is represented by a blue cross.