Put Material to Scene

Updates a material in the scene after editing the material.

The Put Material to Scene button is enabled only when:

• The material in the active sample window has the same name as a material in a scene, and
• The material in the active sample window is not hot. In other words, this command is meant to fit into the following overall sequence of handling materials:
• You create a hot material either by assigning it to objects in the scene or by getting it from the scene.
• You make a copy of the material.
• You make changes to the copy of the material.
• You update the scene by putting the changed material back into the scene.

Note: If you assign a mapped material to a parametric object, but forget to turn on Generate Mapping Coordinates, coordinates are automatically turned on by the Renderer at render time. In addition, if you assign a mapped materia with Show Map in Viewport active to an object, that object’s Generate Mapping Coords. option is turned on. The Show Map in Viewport flag is now saved with individual materials, so you can drag mapped materials from the modeless Browser onto objects in your scene, and the mapping appears in the viewports.