In this chapter, you saw what materials are, the theory about what is happening backstage, and how to use the standard materials of Babylon.js. You saw that using a material in Babylon.js is also easy.

The example files tend to reproduce the notions viewed in this chapter: colors, alpha, textures, fog, back-face culling, and so on. Now, you can practice with materials and customize appearance of meshes.

As a concrete example, the materials are highly used in all the 3D scenes and configured by 3D artists: if we take a scene of Babylon.js made by Michel Rousseau, where he used two meshes and two different materials to reproduce the following image:

The first mesh is the body of the vase with a standard material applied to it and the second mesh represents the embers with another standard material applied to them. Each material is configured with a different diffuse texture. If we set the body as isVisible = false, we can see how the embers look in reality, as shown in the following...