Game Development with Blender and Godot

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Building Materials and Shaders

According to Wikipedia, a material is a substance, or a mixture of substances, that constitutes an object. This definition for real-life objects also stands true for the models you create electronically with some extra technical details. Let’s look at the definition of a material in our context.

In Blender, materials are essentially containers that hold a bunch of numbers, colors, and textures, besides other useful stuff, and most importantly the shader itself. A shader is a piece of code that tells the rendering engine, either Blender’s or Godot Engine’s, what to do with a material’s properties.

In essence, a material is like a box full of little items, and it comes with a user manual (the shader) so that the ...