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Organizing materials with bins

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Organizing materials with bins

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- [Instructor] The bins window provides an easy way for you to organize material shading nodes. You could use any system of categorization you wish. I've got the bins window hidden. So I'll reveal that from Hypershade menu, Window, Bins. It appears in a floating window. I'll dock it to the lower left, which is its default position. I'm also going to dock the Browser on the left here too. Just to take up less space on the screen. Click and hold on the textured bar at the top of the Browser pane. And drag it over to the upper-left of the Hypershade window. I'll also resize that so I can get two columns. And I'm displaying large swatches and viewing as a list. Currently, the Master Bin is selected and active. The Master Bin is all of the shading nodes in your scene. Let's create a new bin to filter the Browser display. And display only some of the shading nodes. I'll select frame_copper. Hold down Shift and select frame_gold,…

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