Chapter 9. Materials
This chapter will explain the basics of creating a material. We'll build some basic (but extremely useful) materials from scratch, and in the process learn how the material editor works.
In this chapter we shall be looking at the following topics:
- Creating a new material
- Adding textures to a material
- Creating a shiny metal surface
- Adding a normal map
- Seeing your material in the world
- Giving a perfect texture to your material
- Color specular highlight
- Adding a tint to the diffuse color
- Making your material easy to read
So let's begin...
What is a material?
A material, in essence, is a small computer program that describes how a surface looks. There's a lot we can do with our surfaces. Look around you; the world isn't just covered with flat ...
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