Grasshopper

Grasshopper: Render Materials

Create, edit and save materials within Grasshopper.

Full Control of Render Materials

The new Material components make it possible to create and edit materials directly in Grasshopper . Seeing a material in entirety on the canvas can make the material easier to understand and edit.

Deconstruct and Reconstruct Materials

Create advanced materials from your existing Rhino materials. Existing materials in Rhino can be queried from open Rhino files and deconstructed within Grasshopper to create complex effects.

Preview Material on the Canvas

Preview your materials in realtime on the canvas by hooking in the Content Viewer (Add link once ready) component.

Try It

How to set up a material in Grasshopper in Rhino 9

How to set up a material in Grasshopper in Rhino 9

  1. Download Rhino 8 Evaluation for Windows or Mac.
  2. Download and open the TryIt_MyMaterial.gh file in Grasshopper in Rhino 9.
  3. In the Grasshopper canvas, change the color in the Color Picker and note the Material Preview updates.
  4. Press the Push button in the Content Cache component.
  5. In Rhino, open the Materials panel to see the resulting pushed material.
  6. Connect the output of the Color Picker in Grasshopper to the Colour 1 input on the Texture.
  7. Replace the Base Color of the Material component with the repeated Checker Texture.
  8. Push the content again and note the material updates in the Rhino document.
  9. With each additional push of the content, the objects will get replaced and will always have unique texture mapping per object.
  10. Try this on your own by changing other parameters in the components.
  11. Share comments and feedback on the Grasshopper Forum.