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LIBRARY folder

Anonymous
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How can i make a library folder with my own objects that uses my own colors/ material. The materials should work when i LINK the library folder??
I tried to put the colors in the folder as JPG but do not work. I even tried to put them as aat and it still not work. what should i do????
I am trying to make a library folder with my objects for everybody to download from the internet.... Please help
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Pens are different in this regard because you cannot define new pens as such. What I mean is that there are Pen Sets and each pent set has 255 colors, no more, no less.
With other attribute types, like materials, you can define as many as you wish.

So they work differently in GDL as well.
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