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Implement material swapping and dealing with swatches

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Implement material swapping and dealing with swatches

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- [Instructor] At this stage, we have all of the texture coordinates and materials sorted out. So, it's time to implement changes to the dynamic component itself. I'll right-click and choose Component Attributes. And you might be surprised to discover that there's already a material behavior in here. And this was actually generated in the previous video automatically when I dragged a material from the library here into the component like that. When I did that, it generated this behavior, because the component needed a means to store this information. And it does so through this material behavior. So this Fabric Linen is corresponding with the name of this material. Also down here, we have swatches on the ground and these correspond to these three adjacent materials up here. So we should learn their names, Suede Blue and that's Suede Green. Pay attention to the capitalization and the space there. I'll have to match that exactly when I create the next item here, which is the ability to…

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