The Roblox Engine offers a range of base materials suitable to build many experiences, including various categories of metal, rock, and organic materials. You can also create your own custom materials and apply them to parts or terrain.

Material is an enum and a property of parts that affects their appearance, and in some cases their physical properties, depending on which is chosen. Terrain is also made up of materials. Custom materials can be created through the Material manager, as well as the MaterialService and MaterialVariant classes. All materials, as of December 2022.

The following base materials are used for parts and/or terrain. See the Materials guide for more details on using and modifying materials.

Use the following reference examples to compare how various material values are used to achieve a certain cosmetic effect and its comparable real-time rendering in Substance Painter and Roblox Studio: PBR texture examples and various texture map values.

MaterialVariant has properties that can define the appearance of a material. Its name can be set in MaterialService to globally override a built-in material, or set in the BasePart.MaterialVariant property to change certain Parts.

The Material property allows a builder to set a part's texture and default physical properties (in the case that BasePart.CustomPhysicalProperties is unset). The default Plastic material has a very light texture, and the SmoothPlastic material has no texture at all.

Jul 17, 2024 · With visual previews, powerful search, and intuitive filters, finding and applying materials is faster and easier than ever. We’ve also integrated the Material Manager directly within Material Picker, making it easy to access all things Materials from one location.

MaterialService is the game service responsible for managing materials. It is the container for global MaterialVariant instances. MaterialVariant can be child or descendant of MaterialService.

The following includes various material values for common materials and clothing examples that you can use when creating your own PBR surfaces. The following figure illustrates the various base surface types you can achieve with various roughness and metallic values:

When you set the material of a part or terrain, Roblox simulates its physical material properties to make this behavior just work. The Roblox Engine offers a range of base materials suitable to build many experiences, including various categories of metal, rock, and organic materials.