How material templates work in the catalogue
Learn what material templates define and who can read them.
Material templates are named presets of a material's render values (for example Laminate, Glass, Steel, Mirror, Fabric, Emissive): choosing one in the material editor fills its specular, roughness, metalness, transmission, refraction index and emissive intensity. The editor shows the same fields whichever template is chosen (base colour or texture, reflection, refraction, emissivity, and the bump and normal map slots); only the refraction index control is enabled when the template's transmission is above 0.
Reading templates is open to any logged-in user, and the list is effectively global: clients see the shared template set rather than a per-organisation subset.