How can I select materials of an object directly in the viewport?

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Hi,
is there any possibility to select a material of an object directly in the viewport? At the moment it is really a pain to figure out which material lays of an object when this object has many materials.

At the moment I am using always a marker material. I drag at at this object, then I take a look in which material slot it lays → UNDO and selcect the original material. This cannot be the only solution to figure out the material slot…
I hope there is a shortcut or something else to do this…

Best regards, Andreas

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Closest thing to that would be the mesh editor, when you have it open, you can see and highlight all the materials:

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Otherwise you just have to select it in the main editor viewport and then scroll down the details panel to find out what’s going on…

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Hi,

i have the same question , i have 58 material slot , and it take me forever to find the right one , can we select directly in the viewport ?

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thank’s for your help
Best regards
Daniel

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I’m revising this.

Any ideas?

For me, I’m merging meshes, so the material counts are above 100 at times.

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This may not be the most helpful, but you could create a tool that shoots a trace towards the surface on mouse click, it then returns the material / path based on where you clicked. It should be doable without C++ using the Unreal Engine Editor Utility tools.