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Blender Material Woes...

Shaun

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I've checked every object (from the outliner, in which you can't use keys to scroll; ridiculous!), but there are several duplicate materials appearing in the MCX material editor when I export.

I think these are the loaded maps in the UV/Image editor which I can't seem to delete, or there seems to be materials which aren't applied to an object, being exported with the .obj? This makes it a bit of a nightmare when exporting the model into fsx.
 
Are the duplicate materials still there after restarting Blender and reopening the model?

When using the 'highlight in preview' feature in MCX are the duplicate materials completely unused?
 
Does every object have the same material? Sometimes, the materials are duplicated and you'll get something like this: Material, Material.001, Material.002. Shift+click on the X next to the material name will delete them forever (just like the other datablocks like images).

Let us know ;)
 
I checked every item, they have all the same multimaterial attached. There aren't any duplicate materials.
 
Ok, there's a face and and a couple of objects which have different textures applied using MCS's highlighter. But going in and deleting this material from it, reapplying and exporting again doesn't solve it. I has a different materials applies than that shown in blender.
 
Hmm, interesting! I never pass my files through MCX, so I couldn't say if I experience this too. I'd say that this shouldn't occur with only one material on the object, but apparently it does...
 
Are you exporting to COLLADA then importing into MCX? I have been having some trouble at times with materials not being picked up correctly. I ended up exporting to .X with the Blender2FSX toolkit and the materials are more correct there.
 
Hector Lee said:
Are you exporting to COLLADA then importing into MCX? I have been having some trouble at times with materials not being picked up correctly. I ended up exporting to .X with the Blender2FSX toolkit and the materials are more correct there.
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@Shaun I recommend try to export using Blender2FSX and see if this got better results. ;)
 
Ah... I didn't realise you could export with it. Whoops. I'll see after work.
 
I'm not sure if cycles materials would export with the toolset though. Forgot to try that. Would be nice though. Sometimes figuring out material exporting is like a button mashing exercise for me.
 
I should have read that better. I've been focusing on using COLLADA export because that's the method I learnt from tutorials. I figured that cycles materials weren't working through trial and error. Reading that would have saved hours of time.
 
Yeah, me too! The .x for FSX is better. There's still one duplicate, but not three!
 
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