[SerializableAttribute]
public class OgreRenderMaterial : RenderMaterial

<SerializableAttribute> _
Public Class OgreRenderMaterial _
	Inherits RenderMaterial

The Material class encapsulates ALL aspects of the visual appearance, of an object. It also includes other flags which might not be traditionally thought of as material properties such as culling modes and depth buffer settings, but these affect the appearance of the rendered object and are convenient to attach to the material since it keeps all the settings in one place. This is different to XNA which treats a material as just the color components (diffuse, specular) and not texture maps etc. This Material can be thought of as equivalent to a 'Shader'.

A Material can be rendered in multiple different ways depending on the hardware available. You may configure a Material to use high-complexity fragment shaders, but these won't work on every card; therefore a Technique is an approach to creating the visual effect you are looking for. You are advised to create fallback techniques with lower hardware requirements if you decide to use advanced features. In addition, you also might want lower-detail techniques for distant geometry.

Each technique can be made up of multiple passes. A fixed-function pass may combine multiple texture layers using multi-texturing, but they can break that into multiple passes automatically if the active card cannot handle that many simultaneous textures. Programmable passes, however, cannot be split down automatically, so if the active graphics card cannot handle the technique which contains these passes, the engine will try to find another technique which the card can do. If, at the end of the day, the card cannot handle any of the techniques which are listed for the material, the engine will render the geometry plain white, which should alert you to the problem.

The engine comes configured with a number of default settings for a newly created material. These can be changed if you wish by retrieving the default material settings through SceneManager.DefaultMaterialSettings. Any changes you make to the Material returned from this method will apply to any materials created from this point onward.

System..::..Object
  Visual3D.EntityModel..::..ComponentBase
    Visual3D.EntityModel..::..EntityComponent
      Visual3D..::..Registered
        Visual3D..::..Asset
          Visual3D.Graphics3D.MaterialRendering..::..RenderMaterial
            Visual3D.Graphics3D..::..OgreRenderMaterial