Hi there, Recently something changed such that when you add a new material slow to an object that already has a material, it duplicates the previous material into the new slot. The previous behavior was to create a new slot that was linked to the same material. Personally I find this new behavior to be very frustrating as I am constantly ending up with ten copies of of the same material that I then need to manually remove by SHIFT + Left Clicking on the "X" and then reloading the file. When rendering models without textures I generally use 3-4 materials applied to all objects as a means of visually separating the surfaces, thus why I am using the same materials over and over again.
My proposal would be to change this back such that when you add a new material slot it either adds a new slot and links to the previous material, OR it adds a new empty slot which would allow you to either choose the old material or add a new one without ever duplicating anything. If you want to duplicate a material (such as when you want to use one material as a starting point for another) then you can just press the "Make Single User" button. Thoughts? Jonathan Williamson Instructor - http://www.blendercookie.com Personal Trainer - http://www.mavenseed.com Portfolio - http://www.jw3d.com _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
