i don't think this functionality applies to d&d materials from the material manager.. I think its a matter of Branch Selecting and then getting a material
Get > Material > X
Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: James Easter <centerstage3d@gmail.com>
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 5:59 pm
Subject: Parent's do not propagate materials to children?
To: XSI@softimage.com
> This was brought up recently. In 6.02 the help files say
> that if you branch
> select a parent and apply a material the children will inherit said
> material. However in testing with 2 poly cubes parented to
> another poly
> cube, when I branch selected the parent cube and dragged/dropped
> a material
> onto it the children do not get the new material. They
> maintain the default
> grey phong. I doubled checked the hierarchy in the
> schematic view. The
> parent shows a link/line to the new material and children do NOT
> show a link
> to any material, thus they should be inheriting the parents material.
> However they do not in either the camera/user view (when shaded)
> or during
> render. Perhaps this is fixed in 6.5?
>
> ~ James
>
