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Intro Material

strahl leverages the OpenPBR surface shading model to achieve physically-based rendering.

What is Physically-based Rendering?​

Physically-based rendering, or short PBR, is an approach that seeks to render models in a way that resembles physical laws of reality. The goal is to have physically accurate renderings for a wide range of environments.

Material Definition​

These tutorials establish an understanding of the parameters available to adjust the material appearance. All of these properties can be set on the OpenPBRMaterial, for example, to set the baseColor, do:

const material = new OpenPBRMaterial();
material.oBaseColor = [0.6, 0.9, 0.5];
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Use code completion to aid in finding parameters.

Material Mapping​

For information on how to apply a material onto an existing object, see the instructions in Material Mapping.