Linked Mesh vs Multiple Face Mesh?

[Harry Hyx]

I recently found out that there are certain RIGGED mesh items that can have different textures applied to them using the "edit linked" option whereas others have to use "select faces". How do you make a mesh item in Blender that can be edited using "edit linked" instead of "select faces?"

Does a "linked mesh" allow for more texture possibilities? I know a mesh items can only have 8 faces.

[Gaia Clary]

Separate your mesh into multiple objects, then export them all into one collada file. They should then import as linkset.

You can have up to 8 texture faces per object.

[Dilbert Dilweg]

Yea the only downside to uploading seperate objects as Gaia mentioned, is that scaling in world it will be as a linked object . you wont have the seperate x.y.z scaling as if it were 1 object.. So make sure your scaling is correct before uploading the multiple objects

[Harry Hyx]

What is the work flow for rigging a separate mesh item like this? Would I join it, rig it, then separate loose parts?