The Material panel

The Material panel

The Material panel stores materials in your scene. From here you can assign materials to objects in your scene and create, edit, and delete existing materials.

Materials allow you to change the appearance of objects in your scene and how they reflect light. Additionally, when you export objects with multiple materials, Substance 3D Painter will recognize the assigned materials and create individual texture sets for each material. 

Manage materials

The Material panel lets you add, edit, remove, or assign existing materials as follows:

Add a new material: 

• Use the '+' to add a new material.

Rename a material:

• Double click a material name to rename the material.

Remove a material: 

• Use '...' to open the context menu for a given material. 
• Select Delete.

Edit a material: 

• Use '...' to open the context menu for a given material. 
• Select Edit properties.

Assign a material: 

• While objects in your scene are selected, use '...' to open the context menu for a given material. 
• Select Apply to selection.
  

Edit materials

Edit materials to change how they appear in Modeler. Before editing a material, it's a good idea to assign it to objects in your scene so that you can see the changes.

To return to the material list, use the left arrow button near the top of the Material panel.

Each material has options to modify it's appearance as follows: