Material component reference

Adjust the material's shader and properties to achieve different visual effects.

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Use the Material component on a GameObject to define how its surface appears.

Main material properties

Each shader has properties you can adjust to get the look you want. The following are the most common properties:

Property	Description
Shader	Select the shader that best fits your material needs. For more details, refer to Shader options.
Surface	Choose how transparent you want your material to be. For a description of the options, refer to Surface options.
Main Color	Pick a color for your material. Either use the color wheel, or enter exact RGB, HSV, or Hex codes. Adjust the alpha slider (A) to control transparency.
Workflow	Choose between Specular (for shiny, glassy surfaces) and Metallic (for metal-like surfaces).
Smoothness	Change how smooth the surface appears. Slider from 0 (rough/matte) to 1 (smooth/shiny).
Roughness	Change how rough the surface appears. Slider from 0 (smooth) to 1 (rough).
Metallic	Choose how metallic the surface appears. Slider from 0 (not metallic) to 1 (fully metallic).
Specular Color	Pick the color of the shiny highlights.

Change the Shader setting to choose how your material interacts with light and appears in your scene:

Shader	Description
Standard Lit	Responds to scene lighting for realistic effects (shadows, highlights). Good for most objects that need to look more realistic.
Standard Unlit	Ignores all scene lighting. The object appears with flat color and is always fully visible. Useful for icons, UI backgrounds, or stylized effects.
glTF PBR Metallic	Uses the glTF standard for metallic PBR materials. This is useful for objects that need accurate metal and roughness effects.
glTF Unlit	Ignores all scene lighting. The object appears with flat color and is always fully visible. This is best for models or textures that you always want to look the same, no matter the scene lighting.

Change the Surface setting to control how transparent your material is:

Option	Description
Opaque	Select this option to give the material a solid appearance that isn't transparent. This option is appropriate for most objects.
Transparent	Select this option to give the material a transparent appearance, and allows you to look through it, like glass or plastic.

Expand the Advanced section of the Material component to access more settings:

Property	Description
Render Face	Choose which sides of your object are visible.
Emissive Toggle	Enable this option to make your object glow with a chosen color, as if the object is its own light source.
Emission Color	Choose the color of the emitted light.
Texture Transform	Enable this setting to adjust how a texture is displayed on your object.
Texture Tiling	Repeat the texture multiple times across the surface.
Texture Offset	Move the texture’s position on the object’s surface.

Change the Render Face setting to control which sides of your object are visible:

Option	Description
Front	Only the front face of the object is visible.
Back	Only the back face of the object is visible.
Both	Both faces of the object are visible.