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FSXA Multi-Material with FlightSimX material

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I am currently working on a scenery project with a few textures. I posted an image of the oil rig example of how they did the materials. It looks like they have added FSX material to a multi-material parent. Is this the best/normal way of doing this? I have been out of the modeling scene for a few years now. :)

I cant for the life of me do this though.. Whenever I add a material it goes in as standard.
 

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The only time you *have* to use a Multi material is when you have more than one texture mapping a single object. If not, using Standard materials is fine, AFAIK.
 
That's interesting, in gmax when you edit a multimaterial you can only get a standard sub-material when clicking the Add button. It doesn't prompt for a material type.

A workaround might be to create an object with an FSX material and attach it to the rig, then you get an opportunity to merge the materials, so you get a new multi-material with your added FSX material merged in. It should also be possible to make a new FSX material, then drag it onto a subobject selection (eg select some polygons, then drop the new FSX material onto the polygons).

It might be possible to write a scripted plugin to augment the multi-material editor to allow adding FSX materials, but that would need some investigation.
 
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I got a number of multimaterials in my early blunderings in Gmax, usually by merging things. I eventually learned to avoid them and still do consciously avoid them in the interest of keeping things simple. The only one I have a use for is the Harlequin multimaterial used when UVW mapping.
 
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