Materials: how to revert to original material?

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Hello all

Let’s say I edited several materials on a model imported from, say, Sketchup.
Now I would like to reset one of those materials to the default one, the one which came when I originally imported the model (because it has a complex UV which isn’t replicable in D5).
In Lumion, for instance, it’s possible to reset to the imported material (the one which was exported from Sketchup).

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Hi mate,

The current logic for synchronizing materials via direct read [update model] is that:

  1. Once imported, all materials are no longer modified by the material parameters in the modeling software.
  2. Only the material with the new material name will be re-synced as a new material, i.e. the updated model will only recognize the new material name.

The most efficient way to revert to a material in the modeling software is to rename your material in the modeling software and then update/re-sync the model.

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Ah that’s a clever workaround indeed. :wink:

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Hello,

What about it working the other way? I edited materials in D5 but then saved those objects into a different skp model then reimported. They revert back to original parameters even though there are still some objects in original with same name and changed parameters. I have not changed any material names in skp. Only in D5

Thanks,
-J