Understanding material appearance

- In this movie, we're going to dig into the settings…that affect a material's appearance.…So to do that, I'm going to go to the Manage tab…and click the Materials button.…That will display the material browser…and previously, I just stretched it down here…to make it a little bit larger,…so that it will fill the screen.…Now, you can select any material here on the list…and I'm gonna select Brick Common because I'm using that…there in the background for that wall.…And you'll notice that when I select Brick Common,…it's got five tabs across the right hand side here…in the material editor portion of the dialogue.…

Now, right above that there's a material…called Analytical Wall Surface and it only has three tabs.…Now if I click this small plus sign,…you can see that the two tabs that are missing…are Physical and Thermal.…So let's just briefly talk about what each tab does…and then we'll focus on Graphics and Appearance.…That's gonna be our main focus here in this movie.…Identity is just the information…that would appear in schedules.…