copying just specular settings

[Adam Trachtenberg]

There’s no direct way to copy all the settings at once, but you can open a second attributes manager, or one attributes manager and one material manager, lock one of them with the lock icon at the top, and then copy/paste each setting from one material to another.

[Ben Rollason]

Cunning! I’ll give that a go.

Thanks, Adam.

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[Aleksey Voznesenski]

here is a way, which is a bit bizarre, but it works.

Shift click on the parameters you want to copy.
ctrl click to set keyframes
right click on them> animation>copy track
open the other material.
shift select all the fields
right click>animation>paste tracks.

move slider left right and Tadda!

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Good call on the shift-clicking but you don’t actually have to create animation tracks. Just shift-click the parameters, copy, select the other material and the parameters will still be selected, … paste.

Knew that but forgot it somewhere along the way. Gotta love getting older. ;-D

[Aleksey Voznesenski]

Ha, sweet, I always have multiple instances of the attribute manager open, so i didn’t even notice that =)

Thanks