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Question by franktrog · Aug 19, 2011 at 01:18 PM · materialnamerename

Changing material name

How do you change the name of a material after creating it? I haven't been able to figure this out and am stuck with New Material, New Material 1, New Material 2, etc.

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avatar image Lea · Aug 10, 2014 at 05:40 PM 1
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Still no right click menu option in 2014.

avatar image sosh · May 31, 2016 at 01:06 PM 0
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Still no right click menu option in 2016.

avatar image blizzzz · Jun 25, 2016 at 07:42 PM 0
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Got stuck on this one too.. New to Unity so thanks for the help! The right mouse "rename" seems like it should exist!

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Answer by Bovine · Aug 19, 2011 at 03:30 PM

On the Mac you hit enter to rename an asset or click, wait and click again.

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Answer by R e i · May 31, 2015 at 08:51 PM

PC, highlight the material in Project view, press F2. (or the click-wait-click method) (Actually FOR MONTHS I was too looking for the "Rename" in context menu.)

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avatar image CornOnTheCob3000 · May 15, 2017 at 07:27 PM 0
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I know this post is a bit old, but you are my new hero.

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Answer by UffePuff · Jul 07, 2014 at 05:10 PM

For a Windows user it's extremely awkward, but I can confirm that left-click... wait... left-click again, works in windows as well.

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Wow, ty. This was driving me insane trying to figure out.

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Answer by franktrog · Aug 19, 2011 at 07:53 PM

So simple its almost stupid. You would figure they would at least implement a r-click rename feature

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Answer by joqqy · Jul 17, 2012 at 12:59 AM

I spent a whole day trying to figure it out. Some things in Unity I must say is very frustrating to learn. Someone on here posted a right click alternative. Tried it a few hundred times and wondered whether the poster had ever done it, because it didn't work. They should put important things like renaming and frequent tasks into the right click option, many windows users first go to the right click procedure to find the answer, it's how windows users learn a new software.

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While right-click to rename is very intuitive, your post is a comment and not an answer, please convert to a convert.

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