We are continuously expanding our vMaterials catalog. We are adding content in all of the available categories, one at a time. If you are missing a certain material from the our catalog, here is the place to ask for it to have it added. We gladly take suggestions and add them to our wishlist of mate…

Hello, not sure if this is still an active and monitored post, but I would love to see a zinc plated steel in both clear and yellow chromate. This material is used all the time for screws, fasteners, hardware, and other sheet metal by engineers. https://www.coremarkmetals.com/grade-8-zinc-plated-he…

Dear @robert163 , this is, of course, active and monitored. I’m happy about your suggestion. You are the first to use this channel to request material. I will try to get zinc-plated steel into vMaterials 2.5 Thank you again for the reference. That is a helpful step. Best Regards, Maik

I could use a good cast-lead appearance, for bullets/sinkers/weights.

Hi Rohland! Any help on creating an animated material will be greatly apreciated! for example, a blinking material for visual cues, a texture movement animation for fluid etc.? Thank you, mohan

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