Where in the Material Library is it?

eireann.sg

I have made a landscape and a material was automatically assigned to my lattice object.
I liked the material but is there a trick to find that material inside the Material Library for the next time I want to use it?
Where do I click?
If I click the arrow top right of the preview field then I end up "somewhere" but not at the place where the material is.
If I shift click on the Texture name then It opens a different Material Library
If I Alt Click on the Texture name then Bryce hangs.

mermaid010

If I like a random material I save it in the Users category, and if by accident I do find it in the material lab later, I delete the one I saved.

Horo

That's exactly as I would have suggested to do. I'm not completely certain but to my knowledge, the randomness doesn't stop at the material/texture libraries, other parameters are also randomised. You may never find such a randomly generated material anymore.

Dave Savage

From what I understand, the randomly assigned materials in the Mat Lab are chosen from the last folder used to add a material in the Mat Lab.

So if you click on the top title (the part where it says; "Waves2") of the three windowed preview block in the right hand panel, while at the same time pressing the 'shift' key, the mat lab library will open and you should see a material called 'Waves2'.

Like Mermaid and Horo, I'd suggest just saving it into your 'User' library as it will then also save the diffuse/ambient/bump etc. settings too.

eireann.sg

TheSavage64 said:

From what I understand, the randomly assigned materials in the Mat Lab are chosen from the last folder used to add a material in the Mat Lab.

So if you click on the top title (the part where it says; "Waves2") of the three windowed preview block in the right hand panel, while at the same time pressing the 'shift' key, the mat lab library will open and you should see a material called 'Waves2'.

Like Mermaid and Horo, I'd suggest just saving it into your 'User' library as it will then also save the diffuse/ambient/bump etc. settings too.

@mermaid010, @Horo, @TheSavage64
Thank you all for the thoughts.

The last folder was the metals folder from where I selected a material, but that fancy red-brown coloured material was not from there.

I think saving it under user might be the best solution although a little bit less chaotic randomness would be nicer.

GussNemo

When you get to the mat lab library, if you look at the bottom of the window, near the center, you'll see a '-' and a '+'. If you click on the '+' you can then create another folder for material, naming it whatever you want.