Glossary

Cool

It's useful to be able to edit a material in the Material Editor and have it immediately updated in the scene. Sometimes you want to work on a material without affecting the scene. You want to adjust a material until you're sure that it's what you want, and then reassign it. In other words, you want to cool a hot material.

You cool a material by copying it in the Material Editor. Choose the material, and then click Copy. This creates a new material that is not applied to objects in the scene, but has the same settings as the hot material. You can now adjust the cool material, and compare it with the hot material. If you like the changes you've made, you can then apply the new material to the scene.