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ULON Base Material File Format

Material specifies which shaders the specific rendering pass will use to render. When you assign the material, the engine starts using its shaders to render the image.

A base material is a *.basemat text file that contains all the information to provide the final appearance for an object. The base material is created by programmers and cannot be edited via the Parameters window.

It is based on ULON file format declarations that define a base material with the given properties (options, states, textures, parameters, shaders and so on).

Besides the ULON nodes, a base material file can also contain an inline UUSL code or UnigineScript expressions.

The syntax is the following:

ULON
BaseMaterial <node=ObjectMeshStatic options_hidden=0 preview_hidden=0 var_prefix=var texture_prefix=tex>
{
	/* Other ULON nodes here*/
}

There are two types of base material supported:

  • BaseMaterial — base material for objects
  • BaseBrushMaterial — base material for terrain brushes
Notice
All node names in ULON are case-sensitive.

Arguments#

Notice
Argument names and values are case-sensitive.

editable#

Boolean

A flag indicating if all of the base material settings can be changed in the Parameters window or via API.

Available values:

  • false — unchangeable
  • true — changeable (by default)

hidden#

Boolean

A flag indicating if the material is displayed in the Materials Hierarchy.

Available values:

  • false — displayed (by default)
  • true — hidden

manual#

A flag, indicating if a material is manual: created or edited manually, not via UnigineEditor.

Available values:

  • false — not manual
  • true — manual (by default)

guid#

A GUID for the base material.

The guid argument is optional. The GUID for the base material will be generated from its manual name in runtime, if the guid argument isn't specified.

options_hidden#

Boolean

A flag indicating if the Options section is displayed for the material in the Common tab.

Available values:

  • false — displayed (by default)
  • true — hidden

preview_hidden#

Boolean

A flag indicating if the material preview is displayed.

Available values:

  • false — displayed (by default)
  • true — hidden

legacy#

Boolean

A flag indicating if the legacy mode is enabled.

Available values:

  • false — displayed (by default)
  • true — hidden

var_prefix#

String

The prefix added to the parameters when they are passed to the shader as a variable.

texture_prefix#

String

The prefixes that are added to the textures when they are passed to the shader.

defines#

String

The argument that specifies names of definitions that will be passed to all shaders.

node#

String

The type of node to which this material can be applied.

Available values:

default#

Boolean

Indicates that this material is used by default for the specified type of nodes.

Available values:

  • false — not used as the default material (by default)
  • true — sets as the default material

namespace#

String

The material namespace. Every manual material's name will contain this namespace: namespace::filename.

Notice
The Engine has its own reserved namespaces: Unigine and Editor.

shader_warning_mode#

String

The shader warning mode that defines the way warnings are treated.

Available values:

  • disable — disables shader warnings output
  • soft — only errors result in shader compilation failure
  • hard — warnings treated as errors and shader compilation fails (default)

shader_optimization_level#

Notice
Available only for DirectX API.

Available values:

  • 0 — skip optimization steps during code generation
  • 1 — the compiler produces the slower code compared to other levels but does it quicker

    Notice
    Use this level for the shader debugging.
  • 2 — the second lowest optimization
  • 3 — the second highest optimization
  • 4 — the compiler produces the best possible code but might take significantly longer to do so (default)

    Notice
    Use this level for the final builds when application performance matters.

shader_disable_error#

Boolean

A flag indicating if the shader compilation error output is disabled.

Available values:

  • false — enables the shader compilation error output (by default)
  • true — disables the shader compilation error output

shader_disable_export#

Boolean

A flag indicating if the preprocessored shader exporting is disabled.

Available values:

  • false — enables the preprocessored shader exporting (by default)
  • true — disables the preprocessored shader exporting

shader_ieee_strictness#

Boolean

A flag indicating if the floating math follows IEEE-754 specification for generated shaders.

Available values:

  • false — disables the floating math strictness (by default)
  • true — enables the floating math strictness

use_ui#

Boolean

A flag indicating if the ui groups parsing is not skipped for this and inherited materials.

Available values:

  • false — skip the ui elements parsing (by default)
  • true — enable the ui elements parsing
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