Materials in Unity (for Beginners)
This is an update to the official Unity materials tutorial, which is now around 10 years old and is sadly out of date.
It covers:
Creating materials
Assigning materials to GameObjects
Shaders
Editing material properties
Reusing materials
This video references the official Unity video on the Standard Shader, which you can find here:
• Unity 5 Graphics - The Standard Shade...
00:00 Intro
00:10 Materials on 3D Objects
00:27 Parts of a Material
00:42 Materials Are Reusable Assets
01:14 Creating Materials
02:10 Editing Materials
02:35 Assigning Materials
03:10 The Standard Shader
03:38 Changing the Shader
03:44 Material Properties
04:29 Normal Maps
04:40 Outro