I wanted to know if there was a way to preview mat cap materials on objects after you have
filled the object with the color and material in the color panel.
Since I filled in my material and color in the Fill objects color panel I am no longer able to switch or preview materials
without having to use the fill object comand again.
Is this something irreversable or is there a way to go back to continue previewing other matcap materials in the
Basic material option display.
Im stuck.
I hope you get what I mean.
Hope someone can help me.
If you fill the object with the Flat Color material, this has the effect of removing your previous material fill. The object will become “live” again and update every time you select a new material.
Also, If you want to preserve the polypaint, and just explore different materials, you can turn off the paintbrush icon in the subtool menu slot for the subtool you want to preview, or shift click the icon for all subtools. It switches off Polypaint display(while leaving that polypaint intact), and it will then preview any active material as before. Likewise, you can turn off “colorize” in the polypaint menu to turn off polypaint display.