V14 Materials Deep Dive – Best Practices for Updating Your Library

In this video, we walk you through how to update your material and texture libraries in V14. We cover what’s new, what’s changed, and how to set things up properly so you can get the most out of new features like Dynamic Materials and texture locking. If you’re not sure where to start or just want to make sure you’re doing it right, this one’s for you. 00:00 Look back at V13.1 and exploring the reason for the material changes 06:57 Look at what's new with material job settings in V14 10:25 What's changed in the material library in V14 11:45 Step 1 - Download libraries from Tools / Import Updated Data 13:46 Step 2 - Configure your Texture Groups 15:55 First look at Dynamic Materials 16:26 Step 3 - Configure how you will manage grain textures/materials 21:07 Understanding Dynamic Materials 23:08 Dynamic Edgebanding 23:34 Organising your material library 26:15 Step 4 - Configuring existing materials and understanding how to lock a texture 37:11 Things to watch out for opening old jobs 39:17 Overriding material templates on the fly 42:25 Step 5 - Configure Edgebanding 51:36 Step 6 - Update your Room Setting Templates 58:14 Exploring the outcomes and impact of the improvments 1:00:46 When do you not want to use Dynamic Materials? 1:05:28 Step 7 - Update your label design to include the texture name 1:10:30 Reviewing how the grain options impact optimizing 1:20:43 Summary 1:21:58 Creating a new texture group and importing a new texture image 1:26:04 Closing Thoughts