Why Material slots?

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Hi

why are there material slots ?

I mean, if I want to mix materials, there are shaders nodes for that

  • so what are material slots used for ? only one material appears on the mesh if I add multiple materials
  • I want to stack materials on top of one another and let them blend automatically based on their alpha output (like in photoshop)

thanks

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With slots you get to have more than one material on a single mesh.

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lol yeah I know

I mean, compared to Material Layers ?

if I place 2 materials in slots, only one appear, even if the other one is transparent

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Yeah, it’s not for overlapping, it’s just for separate materials.

Maybe I didn’t fiddle with it enough, but I couldn’t get material layers to blend, like a lerp.

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ok I see what you mean, it’s multiple materials like in blender

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yis…

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HELP ADMIN, I cannot post any more

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I cannot type UE4-27 or any other, it’s not available

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Hi 123456

I’ve noticed quite a lot of people are having this problem. Perhaps you could describe it to @Get_DOVAH_it

It involves being required to enter a tag, but not able to choose one? ( something like that ).

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I just removed all tags and my post went through
not the first time this happens…the tags UE4-… are gone

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