
## Advanced Materials

To help you customise materials this sections takes a more detailed in depth look at how materials work with Babylon.js. 


## Node Material

The Node Material is a new kind of material available from Babylon.js v4.1. It will let you create a new material by assembling building blocks, or nodes, quickly and easily. These nodes define how vertex and pixel shaders will behave by assembling the nodes in the order needed.

This way you will be in control of everything related to the rendering of our meshes without having to learn GLSL. Furthermore, thanks to our library of predefined nodes, you will be able to reuse entire portions of the Babylon.js engine by just adding a new node for lighting, fog, bones, etc..


## Shaders

In this section, we'll dive into the crazy, wonderful, beautiful world of GPU shaders. In short, a shader is a set of instructions handed to the GPU. From ocean caustics to tree bark, from alien teleporters funhouse reflections, shaders are your one-stop shop for creating compelling, advanced visual effects in real time!


## How To Use Materials

There is much you can achieve by applying the Babylon.js standard material to a mesh and a variety of types of texture. Beyond that there is also physically based rendering material to give a more realistic appearance to a material.



# Materials

Materials give your meshes color and texture.  One material in Babylon.js can be used to cover as many meshes as you wish. They can be displayed as a wireframe, scaled and offset across a mesh, have degrees of transparency and be blended. You can apply multiple materials on one mesh and use a dynamic texture as a material that you can draw and write on in real time. Do you need to make your material to appear more textured or bumpier and reflect and refract? The first section shows you how.

Node materials allow you create a material based on custom shaders but without having to deal with shader code.

The advanced section considers more technical aspects of materials and ways of customizing them.


Materials

Coming next

Using Materials

Jump into the exciting world of learning to use Babylon.js materials.

Shaders

Learn all about shaders (GPU instructions) and shader development!

Node Material

Learn all about the incredibly powerful Node Material in Babylon.js.

Advanced Materials

Learn about more advanced materials and material creation in Babylon.js.