ProBuilder Material ID's

Unity Engine
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Is there a way to apply a material ID to objects made with ProBuilder? In common modeling software, there is the ability to map faces to specific ID’s so that you can apply materials to a face and every face with that ID will apply the same material. I am aware that ProBuilder has a “Material Editor” tab but it requires you to select every face every time you want to apply a new texture.

For context, I am modeling a large interior building that is one solid piece. Currently, if I want to change the material for the floor lets say, I would have to select every face on the floor; or set every face to a specific vertex colour and then “select by colour”, but this method is not very intuitive. When a model is exported with material ID’s set in place, it allows you to simply drag a material onto an object and apply that material only to the ID of the face you applied it to.

Sorry if this thread is convoluted but I am confused on how I should be doing this. Thank you for any help!

If Material ID’s are not a thing in ProBuilder then consider this feedback! :slight_smile:

  • Chris
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Hi! As a 3ds max user, I also really miss that feature :smile: Have looked into it occasionally … I’ll bring it up again, I think some of the upcoming mesh format improvements will make this very doable! Thanks!

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Hope you do this, especially since the latest update of Quixel Mixer that works with Materials IDs and could be great to do a Probuilder ↔ Quixel Mixer workflow…

Also, please put the boolean option back into Probuilder! It is so essential!

Thx,

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Was there ever a solution to this, I am running into this same issue regularly where I need to modify the material ids. It seems like a pretty big omission as a feature.