Linking materials has some wierd results?

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#1

Well linking in the wood material has a simple but nice effect, however,

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If you notice through that window, theres an enitre chess board outside!

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If you look in my world outliner there, you will see some data that I linked in. Only its being added as some sort of scene objects, instead of just materials in the world.
But whats strange is these don’t behave like a mesh, or any other data type likewise. I can’t move them around or edit them, I can’t even disable visibility!

I don’t know if this will become transparent or fix itself later on, but rather odd for now, as He did not get that effect in his video.

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luls. Hmm whys it stretching that texture in rendered mode.

also heres a more extended hierarchy of those wierd scene objects:

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#2

Well considering theres a whole chess board model, presumably it had linked mesh data aswell. But to what nature did it do this? I specifically selected ONLY the materials when linking the data.

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That’s one **** of a chess piece btw.

I do notice I can ideed use the mesh data, but after I select it, its name is greyed out for some reason.

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#3

Linked items remain grayed out unless you make them local or convert to a proxy. You can also look under the Outliner, Data-Blocks and check the Libraries to see exactly what you linked in.

I hope this might help.

#4

Under libraries I see something added named Lib with a file path to the file i linked the data from. But thats all the information this data block seems to contain.

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I just noticed I could delete the linked objects it added to the scene. Perhaps since it auto-linked the object data and not just the material, it make them placeable objects in the scene aswell, and added them to the scene for me?

… Is this some sort of setting?
Even still, what is wierd is that despite deleting them from the scene, they are listed as having a user, as when I go to select them they do not have a 0 in front of their name.

The info on linked data being greyed out tho helps, thanks for that.

#5

I went to my castle project and looked at the data-blocks. There seems to be no mention of the actual item linked, just the file it came from. I linked a material and it just linked the material only. Perhaps there is some link relationship with the material, if it is linked to the object in the chess set? I don’t know. Puzzling.

#6

Yeah it is kind of wierd. The only difference was that i linked multiple materials at once.

The linked material data is shown in the data-block outliner, but as mentioned the link data block only what file address to derive its data from.

I tried doing it for my knight chess piece, which was just a color w/ no texture, and it worked like it did in the video. So hard to narrow down the culprit here (especially since blender freezes when opening file browser on this computer)

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