- Qt 6.4
- Qt 3D
- QML Types
- Qt3D.Render
- Material
- Qt 6.4.3 Reference Documentation

# Material QML Type

Non-creatable abstract base for materials. More...

Import Statement: | import Qt3D.Render 2.4
Since: | Qt 5.5
Instantiates: | QMaterial
Inherited By: | DiffuseMapMaterial, DiffuseSpecularMapMaterial, GoochMaterial, NormalDiffuseMapAlphaMaterial, NormalDiffuseMapMaterial, NormalDiffuseSpecularMapMaterial, PerVertexColorMaterial, PhongAlphaMaterial, and PhongMaterial

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## Properties

- effect : Effect
- parameters : list<Parameter>

## Detailed Description

Material provides a way to specify the rendering of an entity. Any aspect can define its own subtype of Material so that a Material can be used to describe a visual element; for example, the way sound should reflect off an element, the temperature of a surface, and so on.

In itself, a Material doesn't do anything. It's only when it references an Effect node that a Material becomes useful.

In practice, it often happens that a single Effect is being referenced by several Material components. This allows to only create the effect, techniques, passes and shaders once while allowing to specify the material by adding Parameter instances.

A Parameter defined on a Material overrides parameter (of the same name) defined in a Effect, Technique and RenderPass, but are overridden by parameters in RenderPassFilter and TechniqueFilter.

     Effect {
         id: effect

         techniques: [
             Technique {
                 id: gl3Technique
                 graphicsApiFilter {
                     api: GraphicsApiFilter.OpenGL
                     profile: GraphicsApiFilter.CoreProfile
                     majorVersion: 3
                     minorVersion: 1
                 }
                 renderPasses: [
                     RenderPass {
                         id: gl3Pass
                         shaderProgram: ShaderProgram {
                             ...
                         }
                     }
                 ]
             }
         ]
     }

     Material {
         id: material1
         parameters: [
             Parameter { name: "color"; value: "green" }
         ]
     }

     Material {
         id: material2
         parameters: [
             Parameter { name: "color"; value: "white" }
         ]
     }

See also Effect, Technique, and Parameter.

## Property Documentation

effect : Effect

Specifies the effect to be used with the material.

parameters : list<Parameter>

Holds the list of parameters used by the material.