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Hello everyone,

I have this little problem - in Studio, when I have an object with multimaterials, how do work (scale/rotate/position etc. material) with every triangle group separately?
Every time I try to manipulate with the settings, it effects the whole object - meaning the rest of the triangle groups as well.

Thanks.

To do what you want, you need to add more projectors to your mesh and then associate textures with them using the texture Channel values. Use Channel 0 textures for the main mesh, Channel 1 for one triangle group, Channel 2 for another, and so on.

Yes, this seem to work (and that was the first thing I thought of doing), but here's the problem - if material applied to one of the triangle groups has for example 20 textures, would this mean that I have to go through all off them to change the projection channel?

As far as I know, yes.

OK,
Thank you, JDHill.

Perhaps it would be possible to make "Global projection channel" in material properties in the future.
Just out of curiosity - what's the point of having separate channels per texture, if the wrong channel has no effect?

Just out of curiosity - what's the point of having separate channels per texture, if the wrong channel has no effect?

I'm not sure what you mean: what is a 'wrong' channel, and what effect should it have? The only thing that you can really do wrong is to assign a texture to a non-existent channel, in which case you'll see the 'not enough projectors' message, and will not be able to render.

Sorry, my bad... I was still thinking 'multimaterial' - I meant since triangle group is a single channel, textures in a material applied to it, with a different channel (from the one, assigned to triangle group) would not affect the material.