mesh_base

Specifies if the material is rendered during the deferred rendering pass:

• Skip - not rendered.
• Default - rendered.

Specifies if the material is rendered during the auxiliary rendering pass:

• Skip - not rendered.
• Default - rendered.

  To modify parameters of the auxiliary rendering pass use an additional Auxiliary field in the Parameters tab.

Specifies if the material is rendered during the refraction rendering pass:

• Skip - not rendered.
• Default - rendered.

  To modify parameters of the refraction rendering pass use an additional Refraction field in the Parameters tab.

Specifies if the material is rendered into the velocity buffer to create a motion blur effect for moving physical objects:

• Skip - not rendered.
• Default - rendered.

Specifies, how the material should be rendered during the ambient light pass for the opaque objects:

• Skip - not rendered.
• Opacity - diffuse colors are blended with the ambient color.
• Transparent - diffuse colors are are not modulated by the ambient color.
• LightMap - rendered lit by a light map. Material diffuse colors are multiplied by the light map and the ambient color.
  Notice

  To create and automatically set a light map for an object, use a Lightmap Generation Tool.

To modify parameters of the ambient rendering pass use an additional Ambient field in the Parameters tab.

Specify if the material is rendered illuminated by the spot, probe, omni-directional, projected and world lights during the light and shadows rendering passes:

• Skip - not rendered.

• Default - rendered.

• Phong rim - rendered with a Phong-rim shading. This shader creates a rim of the object depending on the light source direction (for example, to create a wax effect).
  Notice

  Shading is applied only if the Phong-rim option is enabled (by a set Use phong-rim option or a render_use_phong_rim console command positive value).

  To modify Phong-rim shading parameters use the Phong rim width and Phong rim scale parameters in the Shading field of the Parameters tab.

• Anisotropy - rendered with anisotropic shading. This shader creates surfaces with elliptical (anisotropic) specular highlights (for example, reflections from the brushed metal).

  To modify anisotropic parameters use the Anisotropy angle and Anisotropy scale parameters in the Shading field of the Parameters tab.

Specifies the blending mode for the detail material:

• Skip - not rendered.
• Overlay - depending on the base material color, the base and detail material colors are either multiplied (for dark color pixels) or screened (for light color pixels), which leads to the contrast increase while preserving highlights and shadows. Grey pixels are not effected at all.

  The blending is applied according to:

  • Overlay first - the first UV coordinates of the mesh.
  • Overlay second - the second UV coordinates of the mesh.
• Multiply - the base material color is multiplied by the detail material color, resulting in darker colors. White pixels are not effected.

  The blending is applied according to:

  • Overlay first - the first UV coordinates of the mesh.
  • Overlay second - the second UV coordinates of the mesh.
  Notice

  If a detail material is not visible enough in the resulting material, try increasing its Diffuse parameter.

For example, we have base and detail materials with the following diffuse textures:

Base diffuse texture	Detail diffuse texture

After we apply the material to the mesh with two UV maps in the Overlay mode we will get the following result:

Overlay first mode	Overlay second mode

After we apply the material to the mesh with two UV maps in the Multiply mode we will get the following result:

Multiply first mode	Multiply second mode

A parallax occlusion mapping is a cheap way to create surface displacements by using a height map instead of generating a new geometry. The method is usually used on flat surfaces, but sometimes can be applied to other types of surfaces.

Disabled Parallax mapping	Enabled Parallax mapping

Enabling this option activates an additional height texture and Parallax parameters.

An ambient emission effect simulates glow from extremely bright surfaces, therefore imitating real light sources and highlights. It can be used, for example, to simulate a glow of distant objects.

Enabling this option activates an additional emission texture and Emission parameters.

A Shadow shafts effect simulates visible volumetric shadows, arising when a bright world light source is partially obscured by the object.

A diffuse map is a texture storing a color information and either a transparency value or a detail mask. It is lightened according to a Lambertian lighting model (light intensity is permanent regardless of the camera motion and rotation and depends solely on the angle between the surface and the light direction).

Color Model

A normal map is a texture storing height information required to achieve an effect of Normal Mapping (a technique creating the illusion of depth for adding details without using more polygons). When calculating lighting of the surface, the mesh geometry is overridden by the normals value.

Color Model

A specular map is a texture storing the light reflectance information. It defines shininess and a highlight color of the surface. The lighting is calculated as a Lambertian lighting model plus a surface angle, light angle, and viewing angle dependent specular highlight (Blinn-Phong lighting model).

Color Model

A parallax map is a texture storing information about per-pixel parallax displacement.

Color Model

An emission map is a texture storing information about the light emission. It is blended additively over a texture, so areas which do not glow at all should be pure black on the glow map, and any brighter colors will appear to be emitting light.

Color Model

A ambient map is texture modulating the global environment illumination, for example, when an object is lighter at the top from sky above, darker at the bottom from the ground below etc.

Color Model

A light map is a texture storing pre-computed light information. Usually is used for static objects.

Texture coordinates transformation parameter. A vector of four float components, consisting of two pairs of vector elements:

• Scale texture coordinates, along X and Y axes.

  For example, by the scale of 2;2 the texture will be repeated four times on the surface. See the second picture below.

• An offset of the texture respectively to its initial position along X and Y axes.

  For example, by the offset of 0.5 along X axis the texture will be repositioned to the right (so the left edge of the texture will be rendered in the center). See the third picture below.

A color picker to choose a color multiplier to be used in the auxiliary rendering pass.

An environment texture lighting scale is a coefficient to scale how much the global environment texture illuminates the surface. The higher the value, the more the colors will be corrected (lightened or darkened) according to the environment component.

A coefficient to scale the intensity of the light map illumination. The higher the value, the brighter the illumination is.

A coefficient to scale the power of the parallax texture displacements. The higher the value, the bigger the normals are.

A color picker to choose a color multiplier for the emission texture.

A coefficient to scale emission texture intensity. The higher the value, the lighter and brighter light areas of the emission texture are.

A coefficient to scale the intensity of the emission texture glow post-process component, which creates a halo around an object surface. The higher the value, the larger the halo and the brighter the material.

A coefficient to set the light refraction area. By the value of 0 there is no light refraction for the material at all. The higher the positive value, the more distorted the image behind the refracting material is. Negative values invert the direction of distortion: the higher the negative value, the bigger the inverted distortion is.

A coefficient to set the refraction post-processing power. The lower the value, the more powerful the refraction is.

A color picker to choose the color tint for the diffuse texture. It can be used for specifying different colors for one texture or modifying the texture color on the spot. Use white for no tint.

A coefficient setting the brightness of the diffuse texture. The higher the value, the brighter the diffuse texture is.

A coefficient to scale the intensity of the normals (provided by a normal map). The higher the value, the higher the normal texture effect is.

A color picker to choose the auxiliary specular color for the specular texture. It can be used for specifying different specular colors for one texture or modifying the texture color on the spot. The specular color of the texture and this color will be blended.

A coefficient setting the brightness of the reflections (provided by a specular texture). The minimum value of 0 means no specular reflections at all. The default value of 1 grants the correct color. The higher the value, the brighter the specular reflections are.

A coefficient modifying the size of the highlight (Phong shading). Low values imitate wider highlights, typically appropriate to create diffuse reflection from mat surfaces. High values imitate pinpoint highlights, typically appropriate to create uniform reflection of light rays from glossy surfaces.

A coefficient modifying the width of an additionally lightened rim at the edges of an object, where incident light is perpendicular to the surface being lit. By the minimum value of 0, there is no additional lightning at all. The higher the value, the bigger area is lightened.

A coefficient setting brightness of the additionally lightened rim at the edges of an object, where incident light is perpendicular to surface being lit. By the minimum value of 0, there is no additional lightning of the Phong shading rim at all. The higher the value, the brighter the edges are lightened.

A coefficient modifying the main angle determining direction of the anisotropy reflective highlight. The angle in range from 0 to 180 degrees determines a clockwise rotation of the reflective highlight.

A coefficient controlling the anisotropy strength and thus the shape of the reflective highlight. By the minimum value of 0, the material shows no anisotropic properties. Phong shading is applied instead. The higher the value, the higher the material anisotropy and reflections from the surface are narrower.

A coefficient to compensate for the Fresnel effect and set the minimum necessary reflectance level. By the minimum value of 0, there is no compensation for the Fresnel effect. Increasing the value leads to more prominent overall reflections. By the maximum value of 1, reflections are at their maximum and the Fresnel power parameter does not influence the rendered image.

A coefficient to scale Fresnel effect that defines the amount of reflectance depending on the viewing angle. Low values provide good reflectance even at a large viewing angles. High values provide the reflectance only at a small viewing angles. When looking at a large viewing angle, from above, there are no reflections rendered.