This chapter presented the Standard material and gave you a chance to create some simple original materials. In this chapter, you did the following:
Learned about various material types
Discovered and learned to use the various material parameters
Discovered the basics of using standard materials
Learned how to use the various shaders
Explored the other Material rollouts
Learned how to create materials using external tools such as Photoshop and a digital camera
This chapter should have been enough to whet your appetite for materials, and yet it really covered only one material-the Standard material. Many other materials are available, and we dive into those in the next chapter.