Material attributes

Intermediate Artist Programmer

Material attributes define the core characteristics of a material, such as its diffuse color, diffuse shading model, and so on. Attributes are organized into geometry, shading, and misc.

There are two types of attribute:

• attributes used as input values for a shading model (for example, the Diffuse attribute provides only color used by the diffuse shading model)
• attributes that can change the shading model (for example, diffuse shading models, such as the lambert model, interprets the diffuse attribute color)

Attributes contribute to a layer of a material. If a material is directly used as a model material, all its root attributes are considered part of the first layer.

You can also write custom shaders to use in material attributes.

In this section

• Geometry attributes
• Shading attributes
• Misc attributes
  • Clear coat shading

See also

• Material maps
• Material layers
• Material slots
• Materials for developers
• Custom shaders