Viewing Materials in the Explorer
 
 
 

In the explorer, you can view materials in two different contexts: you can see all of the scene's material libraries by setting the explorer's scope to Materials or you can see individual materials in the hierarchies of the objects to which they're applied. In either context, each material's name and icon provide useful information about the material itself.

When viewed in an object's hierarchy:

When viewed in the material library hierarchy: