Objects and Materials

Use

Models can comprise a number of scene elements including objects, materials, sounds, and so on. The Scene panel displays all components of the current scene in a tree-view hierarchy.

There are many object types including cameras, lights, markups, primitives, and parts. Objects can be comprise multiple sub-objects and can have materials applied to them.

Materials are composed of composite layers and reflect the material properties. They are designed to principally reflect those attributes associated with maps and applied textures, rather than color or scalar variables.

Features

You can control objects and materials in numerous ways that include the following:

• Selecting, searching, renaming, deleting, highlighting of objects

• Perform various editing functions

• Modifying object visibility

• Duplicating and mirroring objects

• Making objects unique

• Grouping multiple objects

• Making objects transparent

• Modifying object properties

• Creating primitive objects

• Viewing materials

• Adding materials to objects

• Adding textures to maps

• Modifying default material visibility

• Modifying texture visibility

• Creating, duplicating, deleting, and renaming materials

• Selecting all objects associated with a material

• Modifying the material properties