How to Use Materials & Shaders | Godot 3D
What are visual materials and why are there so many slots for them!? Which one should we use? And where do we put shaders? This tutorial looks at the different mesh material slots in Godot and explains the purpose of each one in turn. We then take two examples of shaders from GodotShaders.com and apply them to our mesh, reasoning which slot it should go in.
SHADERS
Wireframe hologram shader: https://godotshaders.com/shader/wiref...
3D Item highlighter shader: https://godotshaders.com/shader/3d-it...
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Visual materials
0:52 - Why 4 slots for Standard materials?
1:42 - (1) Surface material and (2) Surface override
2:13 - (3) Geometry override
2:38 - (4) Geometry overlay
3:02 - Where do ShaderMaterials go?
3:56 - Finding open source shaders
4:03 - Types of shaders (Spatial, Canvas Item...)
4:26 - Hologram shader (override)
5:03 - Item highlight shader (overlay)
5:34 - Using render passes
6:00 - Outro
CREDITS
Intro and Outro clips were made by @Vossel