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Applying a material to multiple surfaces at once

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Applying a material to multiple surfaces at once

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- [Instructor] You've done the work of drawing something detailed and now it's time to apply color and texture. It can be tedious to select a color and click on each face in the model, but don't worry, you don't have to click on every single face to apply the color. There are a few tricks you can use to paint multiple faces at once. One option is to select all of the geometry that you'd like to apply it to ahead of time. In this case, I'll go ahead and hit my select tool, space bar, and triple click on this cabinet. One, two, three. And that selects all of this adjacent geometry, which is where I'd like to apply the color. Now I can choose a color from the materials window, and click on a face within this cabinetry assembly, and it will apply it to all of the faces that were selected. Another option is to use modifier keys when applying the color or material. I'll move to this second cabinetry assembly, and this time I…

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