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Generating materials

Describe a surface and get a seamless, tileable PBR material wired up and assigned — color, normal, roughness, metalness, and height.

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The Assistant can also generate a seamless, tileable PBR material from a description — "weathered bronze," "mossy cobblestone," "brushed gold." It comes back as a full physically-based material (base color, normal, roughness, metalness, and height maps) and gets wired up and assigned to your selection. Cost is about $0.08 per material.

Materials generate faster than models — roughly 15–30 seconds. The result is saved to your material library and its maps are re-hosted on your account, so the material stays put.

Select first, then ask Select the object you want surfaced, then ask the Assistant to "generate a cracked-clay material and put it on this." It'll bind the new material to your selection automatically.
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