3D Blender: Material indice

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Topic: How to give many different materials to the same mesh (up to 16 different indice)

Select a cube and press TAB to change it to edit mode; activate the Face Select mode(CTRL + TAB). Click on the center of the face that is facing you in order to select it (Right Mouse Button). In the Editing menu (F9 key), press the New button in the Link and Materials tab. Material should increase from 1 Mat: 1 to 2 Mat:2. Using the small arrows pointing toward the left or the right, on each side of this field, you can toggle from a material index to another. Come back to 2 Mat:2. By clicking on the Assign button, you will give at the selected face the material bearing the index 2 Mat: 2, while all the other faces will keep the 2 Mat: 1 index.

In the Shading menu (F5 key), search in the Material tab the button which reads 2 Mat: 1. Change the Col of the Material.