Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

Channels

Materials can have different channels (usually, textures are loaded to affect each one of those channels) and each one of them controls different properties of the material (color, reflectivity, transparency, and so forth) A lot of people find it hard to understand what channels are, so here is a brief description of the function of some of the most commonly used channels:

Diffuse Color: This channel defines a surface’s color.

Transparency: This channel defines the parts of a surface that should be either transparent or opaque. A black-and-white ...