Understanding and Managing Materials in Blender (Tutorial)

In this Blender tutorial, I will show you how to manage your materials in Blender. I will also show you how to add or remove materials to objects, and how to assign materials to different parts of your object.
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● Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:23 Add New Materials
0:42 Materials Panel
1:15 Editing Materials
1:35 Add/Remove Materials to Objects
2:47 Add Material to Multiple Objects
3:46 Add Multiple Materials to an Object
5:52 Duplicate a Material
8:05 Change/Organize Material Slots
8:54 Select/De-Select Materials
9:42 Material Users
10:44 Make Fake User
12:49 Setting in Shader Editor
14:04 Closing
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[@RyanKingArt]

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[@tomasm1233]

Just in time when I need it most. Would you provide more examples of how to sue "slot" option please?

[@hotsauce7124]

THIS VIDEO IS A LIFE SAVER! I'm new to Blender. I have a lot of gratitude. been struggling for 4 hours trying to understand Blender's material basics.

[@RyanKingArt]

hope it helped!

[@hotsauce7124]

@@RyanKingArt Your videos are very helpful. If you have time, may I ask for an SSS material setup in Blender 4?

[@RyanKingArt]

I recently made a video on the updates to the sub surface scattering. @@hotsauce7124 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKm5kJeHfLR6mbssi=ZHIuZlFfNQ0MKNf_

[@doodledoocg]

i thought i allready knew a lot about materials, this tutorial is 10 out of 10

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@heints]

You go through the information quickly, without wasting time, but very thoroughly. I appreciate your work.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you liked it!

[@murnoth]

Thank you for your insight! Learning this stuff hasn't been so intuitive for me, as there are so many tabs, windows and options, but this really helps

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rodjohnson2632]

Very well done tutorial! Everything demonstrated was thoroughly explained, and I like how different ways of doing the same thing are shown. Otherwise, someone might use the same method all the time, when there are instances where another method might be a better option. This video was enough to get me to subscribe, now I'm curious to see what else is offered on the channel.

[@MoctorDac]

lovely rundown of how blender handles materials, as someone coming from maya I absolutely love tutorials like these, a lot more digestable than digging through forums and documentation :^)

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@axis3d]

Great tutorial. Thanks for the explanation of the fake user and how you would use it for materials.

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome! thanks for watching.

[@bestmomentchannel]

You are a good teacher. Thanks for the video. You are my first teacher to teach nodes for create texture and material . Thank you very much.

[@RyanKingArt]

thank you for watching!

[@gayatribongarala1162]

Thank you so much for teaching how to drag and drop material on object , i was struggling to find that option. @2:39 you are my savior !!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped!

[@cofiecoffcoff4287]

this was very helpful, now I understand the interface! Thank you so much!

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@pixelroutine4609]

Clear and straightforward. Subscribed.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you!

[@PinkPlume]

Very helpful, thank you

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ncarrasco2006]

Thanks again Ryan!

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@smepable]

This is the best Material Intro Tutorial ever

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@k0walsk]

Bro thank you for this wonderfully clear video.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful! thanks for watching!

[@twitch.sae7]

The best soft soft tutorial ever!

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@graphguy]

Thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

thank you for your support!

[@theartoframos]

thank you helped alot

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it helped!

[@toapyandfriends]

BEST THING EVER...SUBSCRIBED👊😀

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@timedriverable]

Nicely done.....I like that if you go into wire mode on your object or cube you can do more complex colors that have been subdivided into alot more faces.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@pergula]

The best tutorial in this kind.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@joaquinsantoyo49]

great video!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like it!

[@speltospel]

finaly good tutorial from a to z not like other from w to z

[@avinashsurve2898]

Thanks for video

[@RyanKingArt]

welcome!

[@attorianzo1]

Thanks for your video. How come you can't change the object base material if you have many materials in the slots menu? It looks like I have to clean the slots list before to pick a new material for the object.

[@DarkNoggin]

Excellent tutorial, thank you so much! I just received my first Maya "Engineering" file of a vehicle for a client, and I've never had to organize soooo many meshes and materials before (prepping for car rigging) and this was a huge help!! Any other tips you can offer on optimizing a mesh in my case? Even on a RTX4090 this 7GB FBX file from the manufacturer is HEAVY. lol I'm trying to learn more about mesh optimization for making this engineering model into a media-ready asset. I primarily do previs and concept art- so this is a first for managing HUGE meshes like this. THANKS again!

[@blenderstuffs]

Amazing 🤩🤩

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@Sisheu8x]

Thanks ❤❤

[@RyanKingArt]

welcome! 👍‍

[@penguin2701]

Amazing

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@kennmacintosh2627]

Thank you for the 1440 HD version. That alone deserves 5 thumbs up! I just got dual 4K monitors.

[@RyanKingArt]

Yeah I have a 2K monitor so I wanted to make my videos in 2K so it looks nicer on larger screens 👍‍

[@Carlos-di5xj]

Love your tutorials, they're way too easy to understand. Could you make a tutorial to improve fps on viewport animations? I got this problem that plays animations at 2 fps and is kinda difficult to see how is it going

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the tutorial idea. one thing that you could do to improve the FPS, is to turn off the object modifiers in the viewport, if you have any modifiers on your objects, like subsurf, or bevel. if you turn it off in the viewport, then you won't be able to see the modifiers, but they will still take effect when you render the animation.

[@CarlosEduardoLeitedeAndrade]

Hi! What's the easiest way to turn slots off/on without losing configuration? Example: A cube with the object's default color. One color for the top face. Another color for the top and side faces. Sometimes I will turn on the first color, sometimes only the second. I understand that I can change all slots to the same color and according to the index, choose other colors. The problem is that slots don't have names! I would have to remember that index 1 is the top and index 2 is the top and side. Is there an easier way to manage this? An ugly way would be to offset in the color name "top - red". So I would be careful to change it to another "top" color. But it's bad.

[@cardboardpolitician]

Great video and it still works in 3.6.2.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it works!

[@smcfadden1992]

Yes this lol ive watched hours and hours of videos for you to show me in the first 10 seconds why my materials were not visible thank you great video

[@RyanKingArt]

hope it helped!

[@zeroy]

Nice tut, thanks! You wouldn't know how to manage Material slot ordering for export in FBX > Unreal by any chance? Its very frustrating!

[@theaccout4458]

Good video

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@speltospel]

what is PIN icon in node editor?

[@romanos3469]

Is it possible to fusion multiple materials into one Principal BSDF?🤔🤔

[@andabien3]

Wow, excellent tutorial, as always. This has always been confusing for me. Still is, but I'm beginning to understand it. Maybe off topic, but at 12:58 you (apparently) opened up a new view port just by clicking on the shading tab. How did you do that? Thanks.

[@RyanKingArt]

I customized the workspaces, so they were how I like, and then set that as the default startup of blender.

[@canerl]

Hello i love your video. I wanna ask you something: I modelling a fighterjet for unity. And i completed the cockpit but when i using my model on the unity some parts are deleting on the unity and cant seeing.(some curves i cant see on the camera) is this blender problems or unity i cant understand. And did you know how can i texturing for unity. Did you have any videos for this if you have can u give me a link i cant find. Thank you for your help. I forget. I dont know anything for animations. Example; i try to make landing gear doors but i didnt know how can i do it. When i try i cant understand my model maked a one parts (just base) i need to make move the connected base parts.

[@RyanKingArt]

I've never used unity, so I don't think I can be of much help.

[@Tiki_Media]

Thank you! You clarified a number of confusing interface things. I now feel like I have more control over my materials. I always wondered: Is there a way of cleaning up unused materials in a Blender file, rather than saving and reopening the file?

[@RyanKingArt]

Yes there is. I use a free Blender addon called: Atomic Data manager. It was created by Remington Creative. Its a great Blender addon for removing unused data from your file.

[@Tiki_Media]

@@RyanKingArt Oh wow, very powerful plugin! Thanks for the tip!

[@kiranrv3493]

Ur teaching skill is amazing sir.Could you make a video about dynamic paint in blender.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the video idea.

[@protonproductions]

How do I combine all these colors into a single one?

[@abdulkerimseid1189]

Hey ryan king thank you for your tutorial but please can you make tutorial about how to use focal length of camera in blender for what purpose we use wide angle or another about mm in blender that confused me a lot (and depth of field) Thanks!!:)

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the video request. I get lots of tutorial requests, but I will consider it.

[@21realpilot]

is there a way for me to group these materials or can you please make a tut on that im trying to make them into textures for this model i have

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the tutorial idea.

[@21realpilot]

ty for doing this idea

[@sebbosebbo9794]

great thx...grouping Trick for Material please...the benefits please

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the video idea.

[@fmtdamian]

How to remove all materials from model which is import to Blender as obj file? I have tried to delete them clicking "-" but not working. Any ideas? BTW very useful tutorial :D:D:D

[@RyanKingArt]

hmm, you should just be able to hit the - button, to remove all of the material slots.

[@ambrishsingh7363]

👍👍👍

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@jasonwilliams8730]

👍

[@RyanKingArt]

thank you!

[@shynnsup8383]

Nice tutorial. I never realized material managing in Blender was so cumbersome. Comparing with C4D for example, you always have the full list of all materials in file viewable, you can just drag and drop materials onto objects or onto the Outliner, so you can always see what object has what. You can also easily assign materials to face selections and you can update this selection anytime... Trying to learn Blender these past days and I gotta say I am already a little bit disappointed.

[@RyanKingArt]

oh, so you think Cinema 4D does a better job with its material management? I've never tried Cinema 4D.

[@shynnsup8383]

@@RyanKingArt Yup, I think so. There seems to be a lot of unnecessary clicking in Blender: For instance just to see all materials in a file it seems you need to: get into material tab> click drop down to see al materials. In C4D you don't click anything because the tab is always displayed. It think overall it is a bit more fluid and flexible than Blender. To assign you can just drop the material onto the object or onto the cinema's 'outliner'. You can even duplicate materials from the outliner, with ctrl + drag the material icon. And to assign to a face you can select the face and drop the material. I tried it in Blender but it says 'not supported in Edit Mode'... sad :(

[@JaimeGarcia-hq7kx]

I agree, Blender sucks with materials. I use SolidWorks Visualize. With Visualize is drag an drop materials and decals - Simple. Renderings are Realtime and 100x faster.

[@earthmatters2869]

Please bro make video on light catcher for tracked video I know about shadow catcher but I couldn't find any video about light catcher in blender

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the tutorial request.

[@earthmatters2869]

@@RyanKingArt thanx for reply 😇😇 I always click on ads for your hard work

[@rafvanraevels]

Never too old to learn. I didn't know what the number behind material name meant.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you learned something from it!

[@TheMightyAtomNL]

Anyone counted how many times he says 'material'? A lot, I bet. xD

[@RyanKingArt]

lol 😂

[@user-yk2dc6yr7q]

8:12

[@kacpermere8802]

Material

[@RyanKingArt]

👍‍

[@Argyll9846]

Having use a few 3D modeling programs over the decades I can say without a doubt that the way Blender handles materials is the number 1 worst I've ever come across. It is convoluted and prone to errors and for the user a complete shambles that is difficult to understand - a bit like a German user manual for an old video recorder I once came across. Basically users are stuck with what is the equivalent to the Dodo.

[@sparrow_solas]

Bro mustve said material a billion times

[@mikeye3167]

"Material"

[@RyanKingArt]

Yep 👍‍

[@mikeye3167]

@@RyanKingArt i was gonna do a material count but i lost track. thanks for the video though haha very helpful

[@iamacheezit]

The word material has lost all meaning and is unrecognizable to me

[@user-yk2dc6yr7q]

9:42

[@RyanKingArt]

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