D3PLOT 22.1

Material Properties

Material Properties

Material attributes are modified using the central Properties part of the panel. This area of the panel includes a sphere showing a preview of the material attribute appearance.

The material attribute name can be edited in the "Name" textbox.

The material attribute colour can be modified by pressing the "Palette" button which brings up sliders to control RGB values or hue angle, saturation and light.

Finally, the properties can be adjusted using a series of sliders. "Simple" mode provides a reduced number of sliders simplifying the modification of properties, but reducing the subtlety of adjustments that can be made. The "Advanced" mode exposes all the controls.

The table below documents how the properties between "Simple" and "Advanced are linked to one another


Simple Advanced
Brightness % Diffuse Brightness %
Ambient Brightness %
Matte (0) to Shiny (100) Specular Brightness %
Specular Exponent
Saturation %
N/A Emission Brightness
Transparency % Transparency %