From the course: Unity 3D 2019 Essential Training

Introduction to materials - Unity Tutorial

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Introduction to materials

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- [Narrator] Materials define how the surface of a model should be rendered and includes references to the texture it uses, tiling, color and more. So when you look at a material, for example the 4 x 4 stepping stone that we have here, you see that it uses a Concrete A material right here. So this is the kind of information you can get directly from the Inspector. So if you click on any object in your scene, you scroll down and you'll find the material for that specific mesh. And then you can find all the information about the material. So if you want to see a little more about the material or if you want to isolate the material, what you could do is click on the gear icon here, and then select material, and then you'll be brought directly to the materials folder that we've created, or I created for the house. And then it basically shows where the Concrete A is. So if we click on that one, you'll find in the Inspector only the information about the material. So if you want to get a little bit more information about the textures it uses inside of that material, you can click for example, on the Albedo map here and its going to show you where is that texture inside of the texture folder here. So for example, this file here. Same thing for the normal map that I created for that Concrete A and its this one. So if you are looking for any information about a specific material, that's how you find the information. You can also go directly inside of your scene and click on any of the objects here even though you're not seeing it and you're going to see what are the materials its using inside of that particular mesh. Alright, so that was a quick introduction into materials. So let's move on.

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