Standard Material

Use

The Basic Tab Page, when a Standard Material option is selected in the Shading field, is used to adjust the appearance of the material including the ambient light, opacity across all channels, and shading. Note that alpha for a specific channel, for example, ambient diffuse, specular, is controlled by using an RGBA map (texture map, bitmap) for that channel by the Maps tab.

Features

The Standard Material function offers the following features:

Elements	Functional Description
Name	The name of the currently selected material
Shading	The Shaders drop down menu displays all the sample shader files that are delivered with the application and any additional shaders that may have been saved.
Ambient	Selects the ambient light color
Diffuse	Selects the diffuse light color
Specular	Selects the specular light (reflection) color
Emissive	Selects the glow light color. This can be useful for displaying pre-lit models (where the light energy of the room is computed explicitly), or for displaying scientific data.
Opacity	Determines the opacity of the material
Glossiness	Determines the model’s highlighting. As you increase the glossiness, the highlight gets smaller and the material appears shinier.
Specular Level	Determines the intensity of the specular light. You can set the specular level to a very high value to achieve very strong, tight highlights. This value is also known as shininess strength.
Raytrace Reflection	Determines the material’s ability to reflect
Index of Refraction	Determines how much light is bent when travelling through a substance such as glass. The lower the number, the less the light is bent.
Double-Sided	Applies the double-sided attribute to the selected material. Note that this option disables back-facing culling.
Render Outlines	Used to render the thickness of outlines relative to the selected number