Material

Inherits: Resource < Reference < Object

Inherited By: CanvasItemMaterial, ParticlesMaterial, ShaderMaterial, SpatialMaterial

Abstract base Resource for coloring and shading geometry.

Description

Material is a base Resource used for coloring and shading geometry. All materials inherit from it and almost all VisualInstance derived nodes carry a Material. A few flags and parameters are shared between all material types and are configured here.

Properties

Material	next_pass
int	render_priority	0

Constants

• RENDER_PRIORITY_MAX = 127 --- Maximum value for the render_priority parameter.
• RENDER_PRIORITY_MIN = -128 --- Minimum value for the render_priority parameter.

Property Descriptions

Material next_pass

Setter	set_next_pass(value)
Getter	get_next_pass()

Sets the Material to be used for the next pass. This renders the object again using a different material.

Note: only applies to SpatialMaterials and ShaderMaterials with type "Spatial".

int render_priority

Default	0
Setter	set_render_priority(value)
Getter	get_render_priority()

Sets the render priority for transparent objects in 3D scenes. Higher priority objects will be sorted in front of lower priority objects.

Note: this only applies to sorting of transparent objects. This will not impact how transparent objects are sorted relative to opaque objects. This is because opaque objects are not sorted, while transparent objects are sorted from back to front (subject to priority).