Get a high-level overview of the Material Editor and working with materials in VRED.
Please note, there may be differences between your version of VRED and the video. See the video captions below for updated instructions.
Video captions: Open the Material Editor to edit the scene materials.
To the left, is a list of all materials and, if displayed, material tags.
In the middle, is the Group Preview, which provides pre-rendered preview icons of all materials, based on any search, filtering, or selection in the section to the left. Get an overview of your materials in a selected folder by using the Group Preview. To change the size of the preview icons, use the slider along the bottom.
To the right, you can find an overview of all editable selected material's attributes.
Nevertheless, you can fit the Material Editor components to your workflow.
Under Window, you can choose which components should be opened.
Go to the dropdown menu and select which component should be shown.
To help with material organization, you can open two material lists. Just drag the handle to expose or hide a list.
All the Material Editor features can be access through menu bar option or via the material list's right-click context menu. Regularly used functions can be reached via the QuickActions Bar.
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