Duplicating Stock Materials

1. Select the material you wish to duplicate.

2. Open the material editor by double clicking on the selected material, and ctrl-alt drag around all the components in the flow chart so they are selected (highlighted yellow), hit cntrl-C to copy to your clipboard. (leave this window open for reference later).

3. Find your map package in the Generic Browser (DM-Mymapname) and select it, right click on grey empty space>choose New Material. In the name field, give it a name (no spaces).
4. Double click on your new Material to open the material editor.

5. Hit Cntrl-V.

6. Make the connections to the Main Table, same as the orginal.

7. Click in empty space and make sure all the Material settings are the same as the orginal.

8. Close the material editor window(s), and apply your new material to your mesh or surface.

9. Edit your new material to suit your needs

 

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