Blender

Digitalmaster3605 · Post by **Digitalmaster3605** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:59 pm

Okay, this is driving me crazy. I'm trying to make a sphere in the back ground, and then two undulating shereish things in the front. I can do the undulations, but how in the hell do I get the different objects to be different colors? I can't figure it out...it just changes everythings color.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:36 am

By default, when you duplicate objects, Blender does not duplicate the material datablock that those objects use -- it only creates links. If your objects are linked to the same material, instead of linking to different materials, then you'll get the behavior you're seeing.

There are two ways to change that behavior:

- go into the User Preferences panel and select "Material" under the "Duplicate with object" section, which is easier if you know that you'll need that sort of duplication beforehand
- make the materials single-user, by clicking on the number to the right of the material name. The number next to the material name is the number of links to that material.

I have uploaded an example of material linking here:

http://207.67.66.160:2242/~trythil/materials.blend

Digitalmaster3605 · Post by **Digitalmaster3605** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:56 am

Trythil, thank you so much. I was hoping you'd be around to help me. =D