Defining Materials

Overview

This page describes elements used to define materials. Materials largely include the following settings.

• Name, vertex/fragment lighting flags, and translucency settings, etc. <MaterialCtr>
• Various color value settings referenced by the material <MaterialColor>
• Culling and polygon offset settings <Rasterization>
• Parameter settings related to how texture coordinates are defined <TextureCoordinators>
• References to texture images and texture parameter settings <TextureMappers>
• Shader assignments and shader parameter settings <ShaderMapper>
• Fragment shader parameter settings <FragmentShader>
• Blend, logical operation, and depth test settings <FragmentOperation>

The <MaterialCtr> element is used to define a single material. Materials have names. Names are referenced by <MaterialReference> attributes in order to reference materials. For details, see Display Mesh.

XML Hierarchical Structure

The <Materials> element appears inside the <SkeletalModel> element only once. It indicates the start of the definition of the <Materials> element. If a scene includes more than one material, multiple <MaterialCtr> elements can be defined.

<NintendoWareIntermediateFile>

 <GraphicsContentCtr>

  <Models>

   <SkeletalModel>

     <Materials>

       <MaterialCtr>