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Create Material Variants

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Last updated 7 months ago

Simple Material Variants

To better demonstrate how to add material variations to your product, we'll walk through the process of adding two fabrics to our seating pad.

The first step is to add a new Config Group with two options to our product (if you're unsure how to do this, refer to the first step in the page) and then add your two fabrics as well (if you're unsure, refer to the first step in ). Just to recap the first steps would look something like this (assuming you would only want to add two fabric options):

Once these initial steps are done you, you'll need to do three additional steps:

  • Move the right materials to the corresponding Config Variant

  • Create a Material Switch (this will be the item that will act as a combined material)

  • Select the materials under your Config Variants and add them to the switch

You can see these same steps below in the screenrecording.

Now you can use the Material Switch that you created in the step above as a regular material and assign it to whichever mesh you would like.

You can create as many separate Material Variants as you want. You can create a group of options for the leg (finish options) and for seating pad (fabric options) but you can of course create even more depending on your real life product. These

Advanced Material Variants

In some cases it is necessary to change the finish in the same time as you would change the fabric, meaning that a specific fabric option comes with a specific leg finish (and they are not independent options).

To illustrate this, let's assume that the two fabric options we created initially each have a corresponding wood finish. Fabric 01 should always be paired with Wood 01, and Fabric 02 should always be paired with Wood 02 finish. To do this, we need to:

  • Add the two wood options

  • Move them under the original variants

  • Create a new Material Switch

  • Add the selected wood finishes under the new Material Switch

At the end of the video you can see that the fabric and the finish changes in the same time and what is displayed when an option is selected is determined by what is listed under that option.

Create Variants
Assign Material
Add the Config Group and the two materials
Creating a Material Switch
Assign the Material Switch to a mesh
Adding a new Material Switch