The Material class describes a material of a geometry including its surface colors, transparency, and texture information.
Mudbox provides the following material types:
- Materials Presets - A number of pre-made materials.
- Mudbox Material - This material can represent both Blinn and Lafortune shading models and includes options for specifying
image-based lighting.
- Simple Blinn - This material represents a simplified Blinn shading material and can be used on computers equipped with older,
unsupported, or lower performance graphics cards
- Lit Sphere Material - This material is a CgFX file but additionally includes a lit sphere technique that defines the material.
- CgFX-based Material - This material is a CgFX file used as a template for user materials.