6

Materials

6.0 Material Settings

6.1 Material Buttons

6.2 Material Colors

6.3 Adding a New Material

6.4 The Preview Tab

6.5 The Diffuse Tab

6.6 The Specular Tab

6.7 The Hardness Value

6.8 Ramp Shaders

6.9 Transparency and Reflection

6.10 Halo Settings

6.11 Vertex Painting

6.12 Materials and the GUI

6.13 The Outliner Window - Materials

6.14 Assigning Texture Color

Materials

Materials in Blender are one characteristic of how the surface of an object or model is displayed on the computer screen. For simplicity consider Material to mean color.

Another characteristic is Texture which is how physically rough or smooth the surface is or how lumpy or bumpy It is. Texture is discussed In Chapter 7.

Material itself encompasses a range of characteristics. ...

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