Materials Panel

The Materials panel displays a thumbnail list of all the materials that are associated with the current 3D file to allow easy identification of materials. It can be used to view materials, add materials to objects and maps, create, duplicate, delete, and rename materials, select materials and their associated objects, and modify the material and map properties.

You can view the number of textures that have been applied to each material, the maps to which those textures have been applied, if the opacity had been modified, and if the UV offsets have been modified.

Elements

Functional Description

Create Material

Creates a new material

Action

Used to merge duplicate materials or remove unused materials

Small

Displays a small thumbnail view of the materials

Medium

Displays a medium thumbnail view of the materials

Large

Displays a large thumbnail view of the materials

Link Selection

Auto-selects the objects in the Scene tree that use the selected material