Material.Chain

Material Chain{ get set }

Description

Allows you to chain Materials together in a form of multi-pass rendering! Any time the Material is used, the chained Materials will also be used to draw the same item.

Examples

Inverted Shell Chain

Materials can be chained together to create a multi-pass material! What you’re seeing here is an ‘Inverted Shell’ outline, a two-pass effect where a second render pass is scaled along the normals and flipped inside-out.

A sphere with an inverted shell outline

Material outlineMaterial;

void CreateShellMaterial()
{
	Material shellMaterial = new Material("inflatable.hlsl");
	shellMaterial.FaceCull = Cull.Front;
	shellMaterial[MatParamName.ColorTint] = Color.HSV(0.1f, 0.7f, 1);

	outlineMaterial = Material.Default.Copy();
	outlineMaterial.Chain = shellMaterial;
}

void DrawOutlineObject()
{
	Mesh.Sphere.Draw(outlineMaterial, Matrix.S(0.3f));
}

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