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Saving material libraries

Saving material libraries - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Saving material libraries

- In the previous movie was saw how to store materials in sample slots in order to save materials with the scene even if the material is not assigned on to an object in the scene. Eventually though, you will run out of sample slots, there are only 24 of them here. Additionally, this doesn't provide any way for you to share materials between scenes. And for both of those use cases, you want to create a material library. And this is a file that has unlimited size, you can store as many materials as you want. And you can load that into any scene you desire. It's found in the material map browser, and up at the top is a search field. But to the left of that search field is a triangle, and that's a down arrow. And this is kind of secret and hidden, but when you click on that down arrow, you get a very important menu, that allows you to create and save a new material library. So choose new material library, and then you need to give it a name. And by default it's going to save into your…

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