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Adding a material

Learn to create a new Material and assign it to your cube.

Material

A Material is the asset that decides how the surface of an object looks. You create a new material in the Project window with Create > Material. Changing its name in the Inspector makes it easy to find later.

Project > Create > Material
Ad: KupMalzemesi

A material does not affect scene objects until it is assigned; giving it a color and assigning it to the cube comes next.

Color and assignment

The base color of a material is set by its Albedo option; you can pick any color from the color picker. To assign the material, drag it from the Project window and drop it onto the cube in the scene. After the assignment the material shows up in the Mesh Renderer section of the Inspector when the cube is selected.

Albedo: turuncu (#FF6A00)
Atama: materyali kupun uzerine surukle-birak

This way the cube appears in the color you chose instead of gray.

Practice Print the material info

Hold the material name as "KupMalzemesi" and the color as "turuncu" in two string variables. Print both on one line in the form Materyal: KupMalzemesi, Renk: turuncu.

Starter code

Player.cs
using System;

class Materyal {
    static void Main() {
        // Materyal adini "KupMalzemesi" olarak bir string ile tanimla
        // Rengi "turuncu" olarak baska bir string ile tanimla
        // Ikisini "Materyal: ... , Renk: ..." biciminde yazdir
    }
}

Sample solution

Player.cs
using System;

class Materyal {
    static void Main() {
        string materyalAdi = "KupMalzemesi";
        string renk = "turuncu";
        Console.WriteLine("Materyal: " + materyalAdi + ", Renk: " + renk);
    }
}

Expected output

Materyal: KupMalzemesi, Renk: turuncu

Questions and answers

Review the lesson questions together with their answers. To test yourself, solve the lesson interactively.

1 Where is a new material created?

  • By right-clicking an empty area of the Hierarchy window
  • In the Project window with Create > Material Correct answer
  • Next to the Play button on the Toolbar
  • By typing into the Position field of the Inspector

Explanation: Materials are project assets and are created in the Project window with Create > Material.

2 Write the Albedo color

Question 
string albedoRenk = "#____";
Answer 
string albedoRenk = "#FF6A00";

Explanation: On the card the cube's Albedo color is given as orange, #FF6A00.

3 Material parts

Term Meaning
Material Defines the surface look of an object
Albedo The base color of the material
Create > Material The way to create a new material
Atama Linking the material to the cube

All lessons in Beginner

1 What is game development?

  1. Intro to game development
  2. Game engines
  3. 2D and 3D games
  4. The game loop
  5. The scene concept
  6. Summary - Game dev fundamentals

2 Unity setup

  1. Installing Unity Hub
  2. Creating your first project
  3. The editor interface
  4. Toolbar and playback
  5. Saving the project
  6. Summary - Unity setup

3 First scene project

  1. Project overview
  2. Camera and light
  3. Your first cube in the scene
  4. Adding a material
  5. Testing in Play mode
  6. Summary - First scene

4 The GameObject concept

  1. What is a GameObject?
  2. Components
  3. The Hierarchy window
  4. Editing with the Inspector
  5. Tags and Layers
  6. Summary - GameObject

5 C# script basics

  1. Your first C# script
  2. using and namespace
  3. Class structure
  4. Variables and types
  5. Output with Debug.Log
  6. Summary - C# basics

6 MonoBehaviour

  1. What is MonoBehaviour?
  2. The Start method
  3. The Update method
  4. Awake vs Start
  5. SerializeField and public
  6. Summary - MonoBehaviour

7 Transform

  1. What is Transform?
  2. Changing position
  3. Moving with Translate
  4. Changing rotation
  5. Local vs world space
  6. Summary - Transform

8 Input

  1. The Input class
  2. Axis input
  3. Mouse input
  4. The new Input System
  5. Movement vector
  6. Summary - Input

9 Physics (Rigidbody/Collider)

  1. What is a Rigidbody?
  2. What is a Collider?
  3. Applying force with AddForce
  4. Collision events
  5. Trigger events
  6. Summary - Physics

10 2D Sprite

  1. What is a Sprite?
  2. SpriteRenderer
  3. Sprite import settings
  4. Sprite sorting
  5. Preparing sprite animation
  6. Summary - 2D Sprite

11 Godot basics

  1. The Godot editor
  2. A new project
  3. The scene tree
  4. The Node concept
  5. Saving the project
  6. Summary - Godot basics

12 GDScript

  1. What is GDScript?
  2. extends and variables
  3. Function definition
  4. Output with print
  5. Type hints
  6. Summary - GDScript

13 Node and Scene

  1. Node2D and Sprite2D
  2. Saving a scene
  3. Scene instance
  4. The _ready method
  5. The _process method
  6. Summary - Node and Scene

14 Beginner final

  1. Challenge 1: Print a score
  2. Challenge 2: Movement vector
  3. Challenge 3: Godot ready
  4. Challenge 4: Collision log
  5. Challenge 5: Final synthesis