Version: Unity 6.0 (6000.0)
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Introduction to material properties

Adding material properties to shaders

Resources and techniques for adding properties to shaders that artists can use to create, edit, and share materials with different configurations.

Page Description
Introduction to material properties Understand how to add material properties, how material property values are provided to shaders, and the difference between serialized and runtime material properties.
Add material properties To assign material properties to a Shader object in ShaderLab, use a Properties block inside a Shader block.
Texture properties Understand the extra properties Unity adds for texture.
Access material properties in a script Use the MaterialProperty API to access material properties.
Set shader variables to material property values Use material properties to set variables in ShaderLab code or in HLSL code.
Control material properties in the Inspector window Use the MaterialPropertyDrawer API or a custom editor to expose material properties in the Inspector window of a material.

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Introduction to material properties