Animation: Creating Materials  Basic Parameters Rollout (cont)

• It has three colour swatches (double click to access)
  • Ambient - colour of material in shadow
  • Diffuse - normal colour of material
  • Specular - colour of any highlights on material

• Some colours can be lock together so that you can change one colour and the other changes to match:
  • Ambient and Diffuse
  • Diffuse and Specular

• To the right of the colour swatches are buttons that if pressed allow to replace the colour of the material with a bitmap or procedural map.

• The opacity spinner control how transparent the material is.

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