Materials and Textures

VRED supports, an assortment of materials, including layered, Multi Pass, X-ray, and Substance SBSARs. For VRED Pro users, there is support for X-Rite BTF Materials, X-Rite AxF Materials, MaterialX and MDL, and Color Science - BRDF Materials.

For videos on the Material Editor, as well as the different material types and settings, visit Materials and Environments.

• For explaining different material types, see Materials Reference

• For introducing VRED materials and providing feature overviews, see the following:

  • Overview of Material Types video
  • Material Types videos

• For working with AxF, see the following:
  • X-Rite Measured
  • X-Rite Measured Fields (2022.1)
  • Translucent AxF Material

• For how to work with substances, see the following:
  • Working with Substances in VRED
  • Substance Attributes
  • Substance Environments
  • Substance Web Shop

• For how to work with a shadow plane, see Working with Bake Light and Shadows

• For explaining the concept of Scenegraph material groups, material switches, multipass- and layered materials, see the following:

  • Switch
  • Multi Pass
  • Layered Material
  • Material Groups
  • Material Group Import

• For working and stacking decals, see the following:
  • Creating a Decal
  • Texture Drag and Drop > Add Decal

• For showing material assignment shortcuts, LMB, MMB, RMB, M+LMB, and M+RMB, see the following:
  • Mouse Button Interactions
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Material Editor > Keyboard Shortcuts

• For incandescence material setup (Lights), see the following:
  • Enable Separate Illumination
  • How to Control the Intensity of the Separate Illumination

• For creating assets from materials and working with assets, see Working with the Assets and the Asset Manager

• For working with Rounded Edges, see General Truelight Material Settings > Rounded Edges