More info See in Glossary: For user interface graphics.

GUI and UI (User Interface) Allows a user to interact with your application.

More info See in Glossary, there are a number of other categories of built-in shaders for specialised purposes:

Supports a wide range of shader types and combinations.

In addition to the Standard Shader A built-in shader for rendering real-world objects such as stone, wood, glass, plastic and metal.

Click the Select button, and choose the texture from the drop-down list that appears.

Drag it from the Project View on top of the Texture square.

Textures are often applied to the surface of a mesh to give it visual detail. There are two ways to apply a Texture An image used when rendering a GameObject, Sprite, or UI element. If you have applied the Material to an active object in the Scene, you will see your property changes applied to the object in real-time. The properties can be colors, sliders, textures, numbers, or vectors. The Shader you choose will dictate the available properties to change. More info See in Glossary drop-down in the Inspector, and choose your new Shader. Simply expand the Shader A small script that contains the mathematical calculations and algorithms for calculating the Color of each pixel rendered, based on the lighting input and the Material configuration. You can select which Shader you want any particular Material to use. In each Scene, you place your environments, obstacles, and decorations, essentially designing and building your game in pieces.

Think of each unique Scene file as a unique level. To apply it to an object, just drag it from the Project View to any object in the Scene A Scene contains the environments and menus of your game. Once the Material has been created, you can apply it to an object and tweak all of its properties in the Inspector A Unity window that displays information about the currently selected GameObject, asset or project settings, allowing you to inspect and edit the values. To create a new Material, use Assets->Create->Material from the main menu or the Project View context menu.īy default, new materials are assigned the Standard Shader, with all map properties empty, like this:

Element 3d materials to different parts