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Update Scene Materials Dialog 1457
Inter face
Discar d old material—Discards the old material.
K eep old material a s sub-material—Retains the old
material as a sub-material.
Upda te S cene M a ter ia l s Dia l og
Material Editor > Get Material > Material/Map Browser
> Update S cene Materials from Li bra ry > U pdate Scene
Materials dialog
TheUpdateSceneMaterialsdialogletsyouusea
library to update materials in the scene. It appears
only when you click Up date Scene Materials
From Library in the Material/Map Browser (page
2–1412), and the scene contains materials that
havethesamenameasmaterialsinthelibrary.
Pr ocedur es
To upda te a ma ter ia l in the s cene a nd repl ace it with
a material from the librar y:
• In the Update Scene Materials dialog, select the
name of the material, and then click OK.
To leave a material in the scene unchanged, do one
of the fol lowi ng:
• In the Update Scene Materials dialog, make
sure the name of the material is not selected,
and then click OK.
•ClickCancel.
Interfa ce
Material name list—Showsthematerialsthathave
thesamenameinthelibraryandinthescene.
All—Selectsallmaterialnamesinthelist.
None—Deselects all material names in the list.
Materials
Rendering menu > Material Editor > Type button >
Material/Map Browser > In Show group, turn off M aps.
>Materialtypesarelisted.
Materials create greater realism in a scene. A
material describes how an object reflects or
transmits light. You assign m aterials to indiv idual
objects or selec tion sets; a single scene can contain
many different materials.
Different materia ls have different uses.