Models with different materials

[jamesmintram]

In a current project I am working on I have 1 model file which has a set of materials for each team.

 

In the editor, I can assign materials to a model and save the mdl. There does not appear to be a way to create a shallow copy of the model with different materials applied.

 

This means I have to create a template model, then in code I can fix up the materials manually. This doesn't scale very well as I have to write a load more code for each new set of materials I would like to apply.

 

Is there some way to create a shallow copy in the editor which would identical to the original, except I could assign different materials in the model viewer?

[Josh]

No, but several people have written shaders that swap skins based on entity color (basically they just act as UV offsets and select part of a big texture). You can also load a unique copy of a model in your program with the optional load flags. See the Asset class for more info.