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10. Real-Time Emissive Materials

Abhishek Kumar1  
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Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
 

You have created standard materials. Now let’s look at creating real-time emissive materials. In this chapter, you also create instanced materials and learn their importance.

Master and Instanced Materials

Let’s look at the sofa material that you created in the last chapter. You named it MM_Sofa. The MM stands for master material. Master material is the main or parent material that contains all the maps and calculations required to build material. Instanced material creates minor variations to the master material by using parameters that you expose in the related ...

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