The Mysterious Material Drop-Down in Blender | Material linked to Object vs Data

Have you ever noticed the dropdown menu next to the material name? This is used to decide if the corresponding material is linked to the object or the data. In this video Karim Joseph explains what exactly this means and how to use this setting for your own materials.

Video instructor: Karim Joseph

[Mythmaker_theAnimator]

Another hidden gem of Blender, clearly explained. Thanks!

[Promeneur]

Thanks a lot ! Your explanations are so clear

[Wilphi]

Awesome. Really good for having an object and an aged version of it with some scratches and everything =)

[onerawartist]

love your videos man ^^, its like going back to school for the basics, so much informations that i missed when i started learning blender lol, now im like, thats why ^^ "

[nawafalrawachy]

Excellent video. This will help by having both full quality and light weight proxy materials on the same mesh. Thank you.

[mcan-piano]

U really explain things so clear and logical. Its detailed and also simple because u really understand the things u r explaining. Such a Great teacher u are :))

[WalidKhan]

The clearest explanation of this problem. Thanks

[vstreet]

Your tutorials are simply exceptional. Fundamental information that is so often overlooked, causes confusion later on. Your explanations are so easy to understand and so helpful.
Really well done. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. THANK YOU! Dg

[phamthaiduy]

You have a very good style of explain things. Hope more useful videos from you.

[augilmar]

Excellente vidéo très pédagogique et parfaitement claire! Bravo Karim Joseph!

[bill]

Thanks for this tutorial. Dunno how I missed it for so long but I saw it tonight and it helped me solve the problem of unlinking meshes just to change materials. I always thought it was dumb to duplicate an entire mesh, maybe many times, just to be able to assign a different material. Now I know I was the dumb one after all, but that's a good thing because now I can do it with linked meshes. Yay! 😀

[smilgu]

Thank You, now it is a little bit clearer :)

[andreamacor]

Thank's, the best tutorial for data link and object link material ! :)

[StrangerObjects]

Great video! Perfect speed of explaining thing❤️

[mrhollywood]

WOW often wondered what that DATA meant. Thanks for the tip.
Cheers
MR H

[xroman_]

very cool idea with visual explanation

[jarabito]

great way to explain! thank you very much :)

[stevenlitvintchouk]

At time 4:30, if you were to now create a linked duplicate of green object 2, would it be green also?

[mehdiip]

Very good low speaking english . Thanks .

[igorrus]

Fantastic explanation :) Fantastic YT channel :):) Thanks a lot :):):)