What is Material Builder?
Material Builder is a powerful tool for architects, designers, and visualization professionals to create high-quality 3D models and photorealistic renderings of various building materials. It comes with an extensive library of over 1000 ready-made materials like natural stone, wood, concrete, metal panels, glass, etc.
The software is optimized to depict the unique visual properties of materials like variation, imperfection, reflection, illumination, texture, and more. You can tweak parameters like roughness, bumpiness, color variation, edges, etc. to achieve a high level of realism.
Key features include:
- Intuitive drag and drop interface
- Advanced material editing engine
- Support for PBR materials
- Procedural textures and shaders
- Real-world lighting scenarios
- Easy integration with 3D modeling tools
Material Builder speeds up visualization workflow by reducing the time spent on creating materials from scratch. The premade material library offers flexibility to quickly test different options. With powerful render settings, you can showcase the realistic behavior of materials in the actual building context.
The software perfectly complements the modeling strengths of tools like 3ds Max, Cinema4D, Rhino, etc. It is available as a standalone application as well as a plugin for major 3D tools. Ideal for architects, designers, artists or anyone who needs to virtuallly represent real-world materials.