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.