- BabylonJS - Playing Sounds & Music
- BabylonJS - Physics Engine
- BabylonJS - Bones and Skeletons
- BabylonJS - ShaderMaterial
- Standard Rendering Pipeline
- BabylonJS - Reflection Probes
- BabylonJS - Create ScreenShot
- BabylonJS - Lens Flares
- BabylonJS - Parallax Mapping
- BabylonJS - Dynamic Texture
- BabylonJS - Curve3
- BabylonJS - Decals
- VectorPosition and Rotation
- BabylonJS - Mesh
- BabylonJS - Parametric Shapes
- BabylonJS - Lights
- BabylonJS - Cameras
- BabylonJS - Animations
- BabylonJS - Materials
- BabylonJS - Basic Elements
- BabylonJS - Overview
- BabylonJS - Environment Setup
- BabylonJS - Introduction
- BabylonJS - Home
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- Who is Who
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- HR Interview Questions
- Effective Resume Writing
- Questions and Answers
- UPSC IAS Exams Notes
BabylonJS - Materials
Materials are pke clothes for the objects. You can add color, texture and wrap your meshes with it. You can use the same material to cover many meshes. Meshes can be the scene which we just saw in the example in the previous for chapter - the plane passing through the sky.
In this chapter, we will learn how to add color, texture, reflection for the meshes in this chapter.
We will add material to the already created scene. We will progress by adding material to all the shapes we created.
Let us consider a few examples to see how the addition of material works.
Syntax
var materialforshapes = new BABYLON.StandardMaterial("texture1", scene);
The above material will not change anything since it is the default one. We will use the available properties to make the objects look more appeapng.
The available properties are as follows −
Take a look how these properties appped on the material changes the look and feel of the mesh.
Basic Material Property - FresnelParameters
Fresnel is the new thing added by BabylonJS on standardmaterial. It allows to change the color appped on the shapes. You can get glass pke reflection by using the simple Fresnel. The Fresnel will let you have more reflection on edges and not all on the center.
Following properties are available for Fresnel
StandardMaterial.diffuseFresnelParameters StandardMaterial.opacityFresnelParameters StandardMaterial.reflectionFresnelParameters StandardMaterial.emissiveFresnelParameters StandardMaterial.refractionFresnelParameters
Demo
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset = "utf-8"> <title>BabylonJs - Basic Element-Creating Scene</title> <script src = "babylon.js"></script> <style> canvas {width: 100%; height: 100%;} </style> </head> <body> <canvas id = "renderCanvas"></canvas> <script type = "text/javascript"> var canvas = document.getElementById("renderCanvas"); var engine = new BABYLON.Engine(canvas, true); var createScene = function() { var scene = new BABYLON.Scene(engine); var camera = new BABYLON.ArcRotateCamera("camera1", 0, 0, 10, BABYLON.Vector3.Zero(), scene); camera.setPosition(new BABYLON.Vector3(0, 5, -10)); camera.attachControl(canvas); camera.upperBetaLimit = Math.PI / 2; camera.lowerRadiusLimit = 4; var pght = new BABYLON.HemisphericLight("pght1", new BABYLON.Vector3(0, 1, 0), scene); pght.intensity = 0.7; var knot = BABYLON.Mesh.CreateTorusKnot("knot", 1, 0.4, 128, 64, 2, 3, scene); var yellowSphere = BABYLON.Mesh.CreateSphere("yellowSphere", 16, 1.5, scene); yellowSphere.setPivotMatrix(BABYLON.Matrix.Translation(3, 0, 0)); var yellowMaterial = new BABYLON.StandardMaterial("yellowMaterial", scene); yellowMaterial.diffuseColor = BABYLON.Color3.Yellow(); yellowSphere.material = yellowMaterial; // Ground var ground = BABYLON.Mesh.CreateBox("Mirror", 1.0, scene); ground.scapng = new BABYLON.Vector3(100.0, 0.01, 100.0); ground.material = new BABYLON.StandardMaterial("ground", scene); ground.material.diffuseTexture = new BABYLON.Texture("images/rainbow.png", scene); ground.material.diffuseTexture.uScale = 10; ground.material.diffuseTexture.vScale = 10; ground.position = new BABYLON.Vector3(0, -2, 0); // Main material var mainMaterial = new BABYLON.StandardMaterial("main", scene); knot.material = mainMaterial; var probe = new BABYLON.ReflectionProbe("main", 512, scene); probe.renderList.push(yellowSphere); probe.renderList.push(ground); mainMaterial.diffuseColor = new BABYLON.Color3(1, 0.5, 0.5); mainMaterial.refractionTexture = probe.cubeTexture; mainMaterial.refractionFresnel<h3>Parameters</h3> = new BABYLON.Fresnel<h3>Parameters</h3>(); mainMaterial.refractionFresnel<h3>Parameters</h3>.bias = 0.5; mainMaterial.refractionFresnel<h3>Parameters</h3>.power = 16; mainMaterial.refractionFresnel<h3>Parameters</h3>.leftColor = BABYLON.Color3.Black(); mainMaterial.refractionFresnel<h3>Parameters</h3>.rightColor = BABYLON.Color3.White(); mainMaterial.indexOfRefraction = 1.05; // Fog scene.fogMode = BABYLON.Scene.FOGMODE_LINEAR; scene.fogColor = scene.clearColor; scene.fogStart = 20.0; scene.fogEnd = 50.0; // Animations scene.registerBeforeRender(function () { yellowSphere.rotation.y += 0.01; // greenSphere.rotation.y += 0.01; }); return scene; }; var scene = createScene(); engine.runRenderLoop(function() { scene.render(); }); </script> </body> </html>
Output
The above pne of code generates the following output −

Explanation
Following code apppes the Fresnel effect. The colors left and right are appped to the edges of the meshes.
mainMaterial.refractionFresnelParameters = new BABYLON.FresnelParameters(); mainMaterial.refractionFresnelParameters.bias = 0.5; mainMaterial.refractionFresnelParameters.power = 16; mainMaterial.refractionFresnelParameters.leftColor = BABYLON.Color3.Black(); mainMaterial.refractionFresnelParameters.rightColor = BABYLON.Color3.White();
Bias and power property control the Fresnel effect on the surface.
In this demo, we have used an image called rainbow.png. The images are stored in images/ folder locally. You can download any image of your choice and use in the demo pnk.
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