Extract and edit FBX materials

[kurilluk]

Hi, what if I have more materials defined in FBX file? Which workflow is more efficient? Making copies of the materials or extracting them (see figure)? What is the best practice to assign one material to more objects?
Thank you.

[bixarrio]

What I often do is to extract one model’s materials into a ‘Materials’ folder under my ‘Models’ folder. I just have a folder structure like this - sometimes I’ll have sub-folders per model

Assets
  +- Models
       +- Materials

I’d extract the model’s materials into this folder. Then, on other models, I just point them to the same material.