Adding flexibility to our materials

- [Instructor] When it comes to creating … materials for use in ArchViz Projects, … we will most likely want to build flexibility into them … as this is one of the key strengths … of using Substance Designer. … Doing so, we'll obviously expand the number of situations … in which we can utilize the material, … as well as the number of times that we can use it … on a given project. … A couple of good tools that can be used for this … are blend nodes, that we can expose opacity values on, … or even mask inputs themselves, … as they essentially allow to turn details in a material … both on and off. … Indeed, if we click the blend node in our diffuse flow here, … we can see that the opacity value has been exposed. … This means that we can come to the explorer panel, … click on the graph name, … and then scroll down the options … and preview the exposed parameters, … which gives us the ability to essentially … turn off the dirt detail via the opacity slider, … or at least make them more subdued, …