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preserve textures when applying a material preset

bwise1701bwise1701 Posts: 247
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Hey Folks,

can someone remind how we preserve textures when applying a material preset? I know I've seen it on here but can't seem to find it today.

thanks

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  • macleanmaclean Posts: 2,438

    Hold CTRL and double-click the preset.

    Also, if you set the options in the dialog, you can SHIFT-click a preset and it'll used your saved options.

  • bwise1701bwise1701 Posts: 247

    When I do that I see a popup with many options - like merge into scene but none seem to preserve the exisitng tetxures. I'm on a Mac - does that make a difference?

  • bwise1701bwise1701 Posts: 247

    My apologies, I have it now. Thank you.

     

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

    Are you sure it's an actual materials preset you're clicking on? That sounds more like the popup you get when you ctrl-click on a scene file.

    For a materials preset, you get a small popup with two dropdown menus — one to apply the preset to "all" materials or only "selected" materials on the object, and one to "replace" all textures already on the object, or "ignore", which applies the materials settings to the object but doesn't replace the textures. Note this difference carefully, if you just click straight through without paying attention you might have the wrong effect added to your object, or even nothing happening at all.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Ctrl-click on the preset...then select Ignore in the dialogue box that pops up.

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