Creating materials

To create a material, select MaterialCreate from the main menu bar. An Edit Material dialog box appears in which you can enter a name for the material and create or edit material properties. The material editor is shown in Figure 1.

Related Topics
Creating or editing a material
Browsing and modifying material behaviors
Specifying material parameters and data

Note:

Once you have created a material, it cannot be renamed using the material editor; you must use MaterialRename to change the name of an existing material.

Figure 1. The material editor.

The material editor consists of the following:

Material Behaviors list

A list of the behaviors you have included in the material definition.

Behavior menu

A set of menus beneath the behavior list from which you select material behaviors.

Behavior definition area

The lower portion of the window in which the parameters, tabular data fields, and suboptions associated with a selected behavior appear.

Note:

You can display help on particular aspects of the editor that are not discussed here by selecting HelpOn Context from the main menu bar and then clicking the editor feature of interest.