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Activating the Paint Bucket (B) tool automatically opens the Materials panel so that it’s handy. Here’s everything you need to know about the Paint Bucket (B) tool:

 You fill it by clicking in the Materials panel. Just click a material to load your bucket and then click the face you want to paint. The converse is also true: If you click a material or color in the Materials panel, it launches the Paint Bucket (B) tool and fills it with the selected color or material.

 You have a much wider range of choices than you may think. As mentioned in Chapter 2, if you don’t see a color or texture you like, click the down arrow at the end of the window that says something like Asphalt and Concrete, Metal, or Patterns. This produces a list of 16 categories of materials, colors, and patterns,

 What if you don’t like the available carpet colors? Or any of the other materials, for that matter? No problem. Just click the Edit tab and pick a color — any color — to apply to your choice of material.

 Holding down the Alt key (Mac: ⌘ ) switches to the Sample tool. With the Sample tool, you can click any face in your model to load your Paint Bucket with that face’s material. Release the Alt key to revert to the Paint Bucket (B) tool.

 Holding down the Shift key paints all similar faces. Don’t like the dark brick on your house model? Select a new material in the Materials panel, hold down the Shift key, and click any face with the brick applied. In Figure 3-28, the Paint Bucket (B) tool is ready to change the dark brick to a lighter option, which you see as the active material in the top-left corner of the Materials panel. When you’re done, all faces in your model that match the one you click are painted with the new material. If things don’t turn out the way you want, just choose Edit ⇒ Undo to go back a step.

FIGURE 3-28: Press Shift and click with the Paint Bucket (B) tool to replace one material with another.