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Chapter 15: Using the Slate Material Editor

Rename from the pop-up menu. Beneath the material name are all the parameters that are available for this
material. Each of these parameters has a corresponding parameter in the Parameter Editor panel.
If you drag the material title (where the name is located), you can move the material node block around.
You also can reduce the size of the material block by clicking the Hide Unused Nodeslots button. If multi-
ple material blocks are present, you can use the Layout All buttons to align them in a column or a row.
Figure 15.2 shows some material node blocks.
The Navigator panel shows all the material blocks and provides a way to quickly drag to view other sets of
nodes. The red outline corresponds to the viewable area in the Material Node View panel. Navigating the
Material Node View panel is accomplished using the navigation tools at the lower-right corner of the Slate
Material Editor. These tools include a Zoom value list and Pan, Zoom, Zoom Region, Zoom Extents, Zoom
Extents Selected, and Pan to Selected tools.

FIGURE 15.2
The Material View panel can hold multiple material blocks.
Hidden unused nodeslots Enlarged material preview

Material node output socket

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