Materials define the appearance of a 3D object. You can control properties like its color, roughness, metalness, opacity, etc. to make a wide variety of materials like plastic, metal, glass, and paper.

Material properties

Materials share a set of properties, depending on the type of material:

• Color: Controls the color of the material
• Opacity: Controls how transparent it is
• Metalness: Controls how much it reflects its surroundings
• Roughness: Controls how glossy or matte it is
• Normal: Controls how lighting bounces off a surface. This requires a normal map to be uploaded to the Normal channel

Types of materials

There are four types of materials that can be created in Bezi:

Standard Material

A standard Physically Based Rendering material (PBR) that provides a more accurate representation of how light interacts with material properties

Learn more: Standard Material

Unlit Material

A simple material that is not affected by its surrounding lights. It’s usually used to create UI that doesn’t need to respond to light, or to produce a flat-shading appearance

Learn more: Unlit Material

Toon Material

A stylized, non-photorealistic material that gives objects a cartoon-like look

Learn more: Toon Material

Shadow Material

A material that can receive shadows, but otherwise completely transparent

Learn more: Shadow Material

Occluder Material

An invisible material that hides objects rendered behind it (ex. portals)

Learn more: Occluder Material