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Manage materials in a project

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Beginner

+10 XP

25 Mins

(1825)

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For Educators

Summary

You will do much of your more artistic work using materials to color, texture, and stylize your 3D objects. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how materials work, and how to use, troubleshoot, and organize them in your projects.
By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to:
Define material
Create a new material
Assign a material to a GameObject
Manage materials as project assets
Fix broken (magenta) materials