Material Highlighter

• 22.10.24 - Me dummy forgot to upload the file, it is uploaded now!

Had a single mesh with dozens of materials that were just numbers or in a language you might not speak? And you looked to enhance that 1 single material? Then this little addon is the solution! Quickly selected one material after another it highlights the area in the viewport of the current active material has been assigned to. That way you can quickly use the arrow keys or your mouse to shuffle through all of them.

Note: It will NOT move with the model itself, so it is faster. So when you moved the model while having it active, either select another material or disable, and re-enable it, then the position should update. Usually it's more designed to turn it on, finding the material assigned to a certain area of a single object that has plenty of materials and disable it.

Insert 0 as price and as a tip insert 0, as I created this with the help of ChatGPT and Serpens for Blender.

Can't believe no one ever had this idea so far or why isn't this in Blender by default. Took me some time to get it as fast and fluid like I wanted it, but it was me arguing with ChatGPT so no big deal.

-Known Issues:

When you have it active and load another Blender file, the checkbox might disappear. -> Workaround would be restart Blender and load the file directly, or disable it first then load a new file.

Low res meshes like just a cube do not look good. It should have some geometry, it doesn't need to be that high, but on a non subdivided cube alone it looks terrible.

Procedural mesh aka. Geometry nodes will not work even though you assign the material with a node in Geonodes it won't highlight that. If the mesh is actually there, and you use Geonodes to scatter something on it, then it will show the base object.

There might be more that I have not stumbled upon yet.

-Compatibility:

Tested successfully in Blender 3.4 - 4.2x

Blender 3.30 I tried but no highlight shows up.