Grasshopper: Render Materials

Full Control of Render Materials

The new Material components make it possible to create and edit materials directly in Grasshopper . Seeing a material in its entirety on the canvas can make it easier to understand and edit. The cherry? Obtain multiple material variants from a single definition!

Deconstruct and Reconstruct Materials

Create advanced materials from your existing Rhino materials using the new Query Model Materials component. Existing materials can be pulled from open Rhino files, deconstructed and modified within Grasshopper to create complex effects from a single definition.

Try It

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 be replaced and will always have unique texture mapping for each.
10. Try this on your own by changing other parameters in the components.
11. Share comments and feedback on the Grasshopper Forum.

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