rewrting some import/export stuff for luxinia and wondered if max's mutli-materials (or if a equivalent in maya exists) are actually still used at all?
Yozora, yes, and in doing that it automatically creates a hidden Multi/Sub material containing instances of the materials applied. You have to use "Get Material" in the material browser to find it.
So commander_keen is right
It looks like a bunch of good ideas, hopefully they sped up the scene explore instead of bogging down material editor, there have been times in 2008-09 that I actually launched it and while waiting for it to come up managed to select all the elements I was going to use it to filter.
Some one posted a way to go back to the old simple menu and I've been using that ever since. I'll give it a try when we get around to upgrading at work... fingers crossed.
In every engine I've used multi sub materials add a transform cost to an in-game object. Usually they're especially bad on deforming vertexes. So I avoid using them unless I have to.
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thanks for the quick feedback!
Yes you can, but it will be messy...
You can select certain faces and apply different materials to them and it will auto-assign a different mat id for those faces.
So commander_keen is right
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Some one posted a way to go back to the old simple menu and I've been using that ever since. I'll give it a try when we get around to upgrading at work... fingers crossed.