Material Panel

You can control color or mapping image on Material Panel.

You can select ON or OFF with [Menu > Panel > Material Panel].

Material Panel can be docked to the main window or be undocked by dragging the title. When you drag with Ctrl key, the Object Panel can be moved without docking.

A "current material" is shown in the highlight color. ("mat1" is the current material in the left picture.)

When you mouse click the name with pressing the Alt key, you can select vertices and faces to which the current material is assigned and you can deselect with pressing the Alt+Ctrl key.

An you can change an order of a material or merge material by mouse dragging.

New	It creates a new material. A material is created under of the current object by clicking the button with Ctrl key.
Clone	It creates a cloned object of the current object. A material is duplicated under of the current object by clicking the button with Ctrl key.
Delete	It deletes the current object. The faces attached the deleted material will be changed to the non-material faces.
Property	It sets up the material.
Misc	It deletes the unused material or loads and writes the file. Delete unused materials It deletes materials which are not attached to any faces. Delete all It deletes all materials. Load from file It loads materials from a file such as a mqm(Metasequoia Material) file. Save to file It saves to a supported file. Set as default It registers parameters in the selected material as default values. The parameters for a default material can be restored to the initial state by button. Select vertices/faces It selects vertices and faces that the selected material is attached. Unselect vertices/faces It deselects vertices and faces that the selected material is attached.

New

It creates a new material.
A material is created under of the current object by mouse

clicking the button with Ctrl key.

Clone

It creates a cloned object of the current object.
A material is duplicated under of the current object by mouse

clicking the button with Ctrl key.

Delete

It deletes the current object. The faces attached the deleted material will be changed to the non-material faces.

Property

It sets up the material.

Misc

It deletes the unused material or loads and writes the file.

Delete unused materials: It deletes materials which are not attached to any faces.
Delete all: It deletes all materials.
Load from file: It loads materials from a file such as a mqm(Metasequoia Material) file.
Save to file: It saves to a supported file.
Set as default: It registers parameters in the selected material as default values. The parameters for a default material can be restored to the initial state by button.
Select vertices/faces: It selects vertices and faces that the selected material is attached.
Unselect vertices/faces: It deselects vertices and faces that the selected material is attached.

Name

Name

It settles the name of the material and the shader also.

Shader

It selects how to show brightness towards light.

Classic	It is the shader used before Ver2.3.
Constant	The base color is applied.
Lambert	It changes brightness by diffusion light and ambient light.
Phong	Specular highlight is added to Lambert.
Blinn	Specular highlight is applied as same as Phong, but degree of reflection is different.
PMD(HLSL)	It is the shader for export to PMD (MikuMikuDance Format). You can set [Toon ID] and [Edge].
PxrDisney PxrGlass PxrHair PxrLMDiffuse PxrLMGlass PxrLMMetal PxrLMPlastic PxrLMSubsurface PxrSkin	These are the shaders for RenderMan. If you want to know more information on each parameter, please refer to the pixar's document. (*Open an external site)

Vertex color

It uses the color selected [Vertex color] command as the base color for each vertex.

Double sided

Both front and back side of faces are shown in the 3D view.

Material preview

When you click the preview in the upper left side, you can set for preview.

Shape: It is to select the [Sphere] or [Cylinder] or [Plane] to the shape of the object on the preview.
Size: It is to set the size of the object on the preview.
Thickness (%): (*Only if you have set [Plane] in [Shape])
It is to set the thickness of the object on the preview.

Property

When for Emission, Specular or Ambient is pushed, each component of the RGB color can be changed.

Alpha: It selects how the object opaque. 0 stands for perfect transparency (nothing can be seen), and 1 stands for perfect opacity.
Diffuse: It selects to what degree it makes the lighted area lighter.
Emission: It selects to what degree it makes lighter irrespective of how the object is lighted.
Specular: It selects to what degree it makes the incident area of light lighter. It can be said in other words like speculum.
Specular power: It selects how wide or how small specular highlight is reflected.
Ambient: It selects to what degree it shows the color of the whole scene. It can be said in other words like environment light.
A global ambient color is specified in [Lighting Settings] by clicking the settings icon in the [View header > Disp > Lighting direction/color].
This example shows the case when the ambient light is bright red.
Reflection: A reflection is applied for the ray tracing rendering. It is not applied to the preview in this dialog, the 3D view and the scan line rendering.
Refraction: A refraction is applied for the ray tracing rendering. It is not applied to the preview in this dialog, the 3D view and the scan line rendering.

Two items of the following is valid only if you select the PMD(HLSL) shader.

Toon ID: When you export the PMD file, The Toon file corresponding to the Toon ID (toon01.bmp - toon10.bmp) is set on material.
Only if you have selected [Direct3D 11] as a renderer, you can see the Toon Rendering in 3D views. It is not applied to the preview in this dialog.
Edge: When it is checked, the edge is displayed to the material of the PMD file.
The edge is not displayed on Metasequoia.

Mapping

File of the mapping image is specified.

Projection Method: It is to select one from [UV] or [Flat] or [Cylinder] or [Sphere].
Texture: It specifies the pattern of the material.
Alpha: It specifies the transparency of the material.
An alpha channel is used as an alpha mapping if the texture file contains it when you select [Texture] mapping and do not select [Alpha] mapping.
Bump: It specifies the irregularities of the material.
A bump map that indicates a height by brightness is shown if the specified file in [Bump] has 8-bit gray-scale. Otherwise, it works as a normal map that indicates a normal direction by RGB color.

Specifying the file

Enter the file name.
When the file name is specified by a relative path, a file is searched in following order of folders;

The folder (or the lower folder) at the .mqo file.
The folder specified in the Configuration.

Please input a file name with an extension when you want to make a new file.

Ref

When you push [Ref] button, a file dialog is shown normally. And when you push [Ref] button by a right button, you can select a folder shown initially in the dialog.

Show

When you click, you can see the image that is currently specified.

Connect

Only when you are using a shader for RenderMan, you can connect the noise generation shader. It applies to rendering by [RenderMan]. It is ignored in 3D views or the rendering by Metasequoia.