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.

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New	It creates new material. New material is created under the current object by clicking the button with Ctrl key.
Clone	It creates a cloned material of the current material. A material is duplicated under the current object by clicking the button with Ctrl key.
Delete	It deletes the current amterial. The faces attached the deleted material will be changed to the non-material faces.
Property	It sets up the material.
Parameter	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 Metasequoia Material file(.mqm). 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.

Property

It is the setting to color and shade, mapping file, etc. to a material.

• Name
• Color
• Misc
• Mapping

Name

Name

It settles the name of the material.

Shader

This specifies the shading (expression for light).

Classic	It is the shader used before Ver2.3.
Constant	The base color is applied.
Lambert	It changes the brightness by diffusion light and ambient light.
Phong	The specular highlight is added to Lambert.
Blinn	The specular highlight is applied as same as Phong, but the degree of reflection is different.
glTF(HLSL)	It is the shader for export to glTF.
PMD(HLSL)	It is the shader for export to PMD (MikuMikuDance Format). You can set [Toon ID] and [Edge].
Shaders with a name beginning with Pxr- (RenderMan)	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 the front and backside 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.

Color

It is setting the color of a material. Specify in HSV, RGB, Hex, or select from the color library.

Misc

Depending on the shader you use, the items that can be set are different.

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

Alpha

It adjusts how the object opaque. 0 stands for perfect transparent (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

Set the effect of reflecting light like a mirror on the surface of the material.
The item 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

Specify the refractive index when light passes through a translucent material.
The item 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.

For glTF(HLSL) shader

Metallic

Set the metallic luster on the surface of the material.

Roughness

Specify the roughness of the surface of the material.

Alpha mode

Specifies the representation of the alpha value (transparency) of the texture image.

• Default - Alpha mode is not specified. The output is the same as Opaque.
• Opaque - The alpha value of the texture is ignored. It is all opaque.
• Mask - The part whose alpha value is lower than the specified Alpha cutoff is expressed as transparent. The part with high alpha value is expressed as opaque.
• Blend - Make transparent the background according to the alpha value of the texture.

Alpha cutoff

When Alpha mode is Mask, it determines transparency / opacity according to this cutoff value.
*In Alpha mode other than Mask, this value is ignored.

For 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

The file of the mapping image is specified.

Projection Method

It is to select one from [UV] or [Flat] or [Cylinder] or [Sphere].

Wrapping

It specifies the display method when UV mapping across breaks on the mapping image. It can be specified separately for U direction and V direction.

• Repeat - Repeat and spread the image.
• Mirror - Flip the image, repeat and spread.
• Clamp - Images are not repeated. Stretches the edge of the image for display.

ex.) UV mapping crossing breaks on the mapping image.

Display on the object
Repeat	Mirror	Clamp

Nearest interp.

If it is checked, the interpolation method when scaling the mapping image is changed.

OFF	ON

Specifying the file

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

1. The folder (or the lower folder) at the .mqo/mqoz file.
2. 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 render by [RenderMan]. It is ignored in 3D views or the rendering by Metasequoia.

Mapping type

Each shader has different types of mapping available.

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.

Mapping type for glTF(HLSL)
Normal	It specifies the irregularities of the material. The depth of irregularities is adjusted by [Normal map scale].
Metal/Rough	It specifies the strength of the material's reflection.
Emissive	It specifies the part where the material emits light. The intensity of the emission is adjusted by [Emission].
Occlusion	It specifies the part where the shades of the material are. The intensity of the shade is adjusted by [Occlusion map strength].