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Cycle materials in dynamic components

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Cycle materials in dynamic components

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- [Instructor] This week I'd like to show you how to create a dynamic component that cycles through a list of materials, and we're going to use this on our Greek Vase project that we've been developing in the last few weeks. So as it stands, the Greek vase is composed of different parts. It has two handles and it has a body. I'd like to unify all of those into a single component. So to do that I'm going to select each piece by holding down the shift key, and then I'll right click and choose Make component. I'll give that component the name Vase and then I'll click Set component axes, and orbit underneath and click on the base of the object right there in the middle at the origin point. And then click on the red axis and then the green axis, and then click Create. So you're left with a component. And this item right here in Entity info represents the material, and this symbol represents the default material. So there's really no material that's been assigned to the component, yet we…

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