sharing materials between files

[thickly]

kind of a noob question I'm sure, but is there a way to share material settings from one file to another so I don't need to re-create them?

 

thanks,

SD

[JamesTaylor]

you can create material libruary's that can be accessed through the material editor aswell as importing materials from previous scenes.

 

in the material editor click select get material then open libruary and under file type change it to .max then navigate through to the file you want grab a material from and click open, all the materials in that scene will be shown in the window.

 

To see about creating central libruary's its probably easier for you to have a look at the help file, as off the top of my head i can't remember all the steps!!! but its quite straight forward.

[thickly]

much appreciated James!