Duplicating and instancing

- [Instructor] In this video we're going to take a look … at duplicating materials in the Shader Tree. … I have a wooden material applied to this cube object. … Now let's I want to duplicate this material … and also apply it onto the cylinder and the cone. … Well, there's several different ways you could do this. … All with slightly different results. … Let's start by taking a look at the most straightforward … which is to simply duplicate … all the components of a material, … and copy them from one material group, … in the Shader Tree, to another. … So I'm going to click on the wooden cube in preview … to select it's material in the Shader Tree. … And with the base material selected, … I'm going to hold Shift, and I'm going to select to top map … in the group in order to select all … of the maps within that group. … And then I'm going to right click. … And from the resulting menu, I'm going to select duplicate. … And then I'm simply going to left click and drag all … of those duplicates into the wooden cylinder material. …