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Material Library

The Material Library provides 114 ready-made material presets across 14 categories — including 15 gemstones and nine precious metals for jewellery. Instead of building materials from scratch, browse the library, preview on a 3D sphere, and import presets into your personal collection in one click.

Using Library Materials

  1. 1Navigate to Dashboard > Materials.
  2. 2Click the "Material Library" button.
  3. 3Browse by category or search by name.
  4. 4Click on a preset to see a live 3D sphere preview showing how the material looks under scene lighting.
  5. 5Click "Use Material" to copy the preset into your personal material library.
  6. 6The imported material is now fully editable — adjust colours, roughness, metallic, swap textures, or tweak advanced settings as needed.

Available Categories (114 Presets)

Brick

Red brick wall, white washed, herringbone, dark clinker

4 presets

Concrete

Poured, board-formed, cracked, exposed aggregate, polished

5 presets

Fabric

Cotton, linen, denim, canvas, velvet, wool, silk, knit

14 presets

Floors

Hardwood, laminate, parquet, vinyl plank

4 presets

Gemstones

Diamond, sapphire, ruby, emerald, amethyst, moissanite, aquamarine, tanzanite and more — with refraction and fire

15 presets

Glass

Clear, frosted, tinted, textured, coloured, privacy

8 presets

Marble

Carrara, nero marquina, green, pink onyx

4 presets

Metal

Brushed aluminium, steel, gold, copper, chrome, brass, titanium — plus platinum, white and yellow gold, palladium, silver and black rhodium for jewellery

23 presets

Plastic

Matte, glossy, translucent, rubber, soft-touch

5 presets

Roofing

Clay tile, slate, asphalt shingle, corrugated metal

4 presets

Stone

Granite, limestone, sandstone, slate

4 presets

Tiles

Subway, hexagon, terracotta, penny round

4 presets

Wood

Oak, walnut, maple, birch, pine, bamboo, cherry, ash

8 presets

Various

Cork, cardboard, paper, leather, woven rattan, ceramic

12 presets
Customisation: Library materials are duplicated into your collection when you import them. You can freely edit the copy without affecting the original preset. This is great for creating variations (e.g., "Brushed Steel - Silver" and "Brushed Steel - Gold").
Gemstones: picking a stone in the Gemstones category opens the Material Editor with its Gemstone / Transmission section already set up — refractive index, fire and body colour, plus a transparent look for viewers that cannot refract light. See Jewelry & Gemstones.
Lighting matters: Library material previews use the same HDR environment as your project. If a material looks different after import, check your project's lighting settings (Project Settings > Lighting) — the environment map heavily influences how metallic and reflective materials appear.

More in Materials

Creating MaterialsBuild physically based (PBR) materials with base color, metalness, roughness, normal, and ambient-occlusion maps in the material editor.Applying PBR TexturesApply PBR texture maps to 3D models and option-block variants with correct UV orientation for accurate, realistic surfaces.Material ExamplesReady-made material recipes — metals, woods, fabrics, glass, and plastics — to copy and tune for your own products.Bulk-Add Materials by CategoryPopulate a Select Material block from an entire category so shoppers can pick from large material libraries without per-variant authoring.Jewelry & GemstonesBuild jewellery configurators with gemstones that refract light and sparkle: 15 gem presets, precious metals, jewelry lighting and custom HDR environments, quality settings and how to model stones.