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It is important to note that these simplified Types do nothing more than simplifying the UI of material creation, adjusting behind the scenes several parameters in the advanced editor - there is no difference in render quality between using Types or custom materials created from scratch using the advanced editor. |
Converting a material created using
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an assistant to the advanced editor
When working with a Typean assistant, you can at any time click the "Convert to Advanced" button to switch the material to the advanced editor - thus revealing the full material editor. Please note that this is a one-way conversion - you can't convert this material back to a Type. This is because it's impossible to accommodate all the parameters found in the full material editor back to a certain Typeassistant, which only uses a subset of these parameters.
Should I use
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the assistants or the Advanced Editor?
Creating materials using Types the assistants has two great advantages - speed and simplicity. Even if you are already comfortable using the advanced editor, you may find that in many cases you can create materials much faster by starting from a Type rather than creating it from scratch in the advanced editor. For new users, the advanced editor seems daunting, with too many possibilities and too many parameters interacting. With Types, we have tried to give intuitive, common names to the parameters where possible, and we display only the parameters needed for that particular Type.
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