# Materials are here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Release notes\ **Created:** [February 4, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221 "2022-02-04T18:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4

**Author:** ![Chayanne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/chayanne/32/8789_2.png) [@Chayanne](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Chayanne)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/64 "2022-02-08T22:19:06Z")

It’s fantastic. After just five minutes of testing, I find Shapr3D Visualization Beta to be much better than the Cadmio app - excluding background enviroment, but it’s still just a beta. I am impressed by the application of the different materials. It is very intuitive. Thanks for the opportunity to test the new functionality. ---

**Author:** ![PEC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@PEC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/PEC)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/65 "2022-02-09T00:15:52Z")

☕ for the night. Liquid and glass, not so easy. Any chance to get liquid material? Red cup to show what the handle looks like. It works very well. 😃 ![Coffee time2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/8/8897d27a6b3d88bf1bdc2071783b47cefea921e9.jpeg) ![cup](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/4/4322eb13aa0edc23264cc32069429671c053ae24.jpeg) ---

**Author:** ![Chayanne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/chayanne/32/8789_2.png) [@Chayanne](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Chayanne)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 12:20pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/66 "2022-02-09T12:20:04Z")

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/8/86888c52daf2696373a62cf552d09e985f8943a1.jpeg) What I like is that I can apply different material to different surfaces. Cadmio app does not have this option. ---

**Author:** ![tommyn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/tommyn/32/1714_2.png) [@tommyn](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/tommyn)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/67 "2022-02-09T14:47:08Z")

Good point! Best, Tommy ---

**Author:** ![Xiamen0592](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/xiamen0592/32/12386_2.png) [@Xiamen0592](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Xiamen0592)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/68 "2022-02-10T13:32:43Z")

Wow,this is a very important change and update,and I can’t wait to tell you about it. ---

**Author:** ![Laci\_K](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/laci_k/32/8196_2.png) [@Laci\_K](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci_K)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/69 "2022-02-10T14:06:45Z")

Don’t wait, tell us 😃 ---

**Author:** ![Xiamen0592](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/xiamen0592/32/12386_2.png) [@Xiamen0592](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Xiamen0592)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/70 "2022-02-10T14:46:26Z")

Great job,thank you very much! ---

**Author:** ![nadim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@nadim](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/nadim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/71 "2022-02-10T17:43:57Z")

The Typeform link seems to not be working. ---

**Author:** ![DanielR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/danielr/32/582_2.png) [@DanielR](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/DanielR)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/72 "2022-02-10T17:48:24Z")

Let me check ---

**Author:** ![DanielR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/danielr/32/582_2.png) [@DanielR](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/DanielR)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/73 "2022-02-10T17:50:15Z")

UPDATE 2: It’s back online - thanks for the wait UPDATE: In case Typeform is still down, please reach out to me directly and I’ll get you access to the beta: [daniel@shapr3d.com](mailto:daniel@shapr3d.com) Typeform seems to be down: [https://status.typeform.com/](https://status.typeform.com/) Will check in a few minutes if it comes back. If not, we will figure out an alternative solution 🙂 Thanks for your patience ---

**Author:** ![alaayed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/alaayed/32/12380_2.png) [@alaayed](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/alaayed)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/74 "2022-02-10T21:59:27Z")

Hello everyone, a new experience for the rander process, and it is nice to add materials in Shapr3d, realistic materials and welcome, and we wish the ability to add new materials and add lighting and. Accept my sincere greetings ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/8/8b98a09e09d0d87ba803f37ea2226ab129e0c504.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/c/cc5d53cbd53cad00b5d5ab0a950bffae73f4f50f.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/e/ed27453c9a72c13007ee9197fb25e8a83cd98190.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/c/cd107fe77a926ac9a10c8d06678ae1478667ca33.jpeg) ---

**Author:** ![Gusriwandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/67e7ee/32.png) [@Gusriwandi](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Gusriwandi)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/75 "2022-02-11T07:16:35Z")

Do not add unimportant features that will make this software loss its simplicity ---

**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/76 "2022-02-11T07:22:50Z")

We won’t, I promise! 🤞 ---

**Author:** ![Gusriwandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/67e7ee/32.png) [@Gusriwandi](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Gusriwandi)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/77 "2022-02-11T07:59:31Z")

😘 thank you Sir… ---

**Author:** ![PEC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@PEC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/PEC)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 11:59am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/78 "2022-02-11T11:59:45Z")

It’s Génépi time at 3 vallées 🍸 I really love the fact that it’s incredibly easy to get great result when you are not an expert (I’m an electronic engineer, not a designer). As requested by many other testers, it would be great to have control over the material direction, especially for wood material (any strongly oriented material in fact), and to have that direction sticked to the object : if I rotate the object, the material orientation rotates also. Here is a real live exemple : the real object has wood oriented vertically. It is fortunate that the wood selected has the right orientation. But if you look at the last snapshot, it is no longer the case : wood orientation is now diagonal. But I have no choice to show correctly the engraved text on the bottom but to place the object flat on the table and rotated correctly in order for the bottom plate to catch the light. Anyhow, material is a great new function 😍 to play with and soooo simple to use. 👋 (I found a bug in the text tool on macos version while doing this model: it is impossible to enter more than a single digit in the text size box, because once you hit a key, focus goes out of the size box. I needed 4.5mm text size at some point. So, the work around I used was to type the size in the text area, and cut/paste it in the size box. It works but it’s not convenient.) ![Genepi time](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/2/2f643d0d18d2ad4fa64f7908a78905c91dff0850.jpeg) ![Genepi time open](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/8/81269b48e6c31fef991721027b6fc7ba99b4f930.jpeg) ![Genepi time detail 1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/c/ca4c9eb6f03bd7d4ed0bc29a776d0fdc26831ca9.jpeg) ![Genepi time detail 4](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/7/7210f2f98703ba4f9acfbcc1e7729d600efdeb32.jpeg) ![genepi time bottom detail](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/a/a090411fadc8b27787d53deddcfbb8e9d47df53c.jpeg) ---

**Author:** ![Romulus369](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/romulus369/32/2871_2.png) [@Romulus369](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Romulus369)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/79 "2022-02-11T23:04:13Z")

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/f/fb4765051d574816644ff7c46bfc5b829f54e684.jpeg) 🕶 ---

**Author:** ![Romulus369](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/romulus369/32/2871_2.png) [@Romulus369](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Romulus369)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 3:03am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/80 "2022-02-12T03:03:20Z")

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/7/79fca8ffed4f906e50b62adab01c0c04c56e942f.jpeg) Screenshots are still very effective!!!👍🏻🕶 ---

**Author:** ![Laci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c67d28/32.png) [@Laci](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/81 "2022-02-12T09:34:15Z")

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/9/9c96a82d3b06061952957c94c28c6ded2059cc63.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/b/b6d1e9cdb266712b6492f4835e4a1acd552f7085.jpeg) When using dark materials and switching from visualize to modeling the object becomes just black and it’s hard to work on. Wouldn’t it be better if we could have some default gray color always when modeling? Or even better, always view as in visualization. ---

**Author:** ![Aquariumsetc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Aquariumsetc](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Aquariumsetc)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 10:11am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/82 "2022-02-12T10:11:56Z")

Before and after update…. Fair bit of difference, this is much better with far less jaggies on the straight lines ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/3/33306f56e7ff9d7f1beb1958847eb86c4263e686.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/f/ff1ab3c4ecae48245354a75e2eac7ff371144312.jpeg) ---

**Author:** ![Romulus369](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/romulus369/32/2871_2.png) [@Romulus369](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Romulus369)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/materials-are-here/17221/83 "2022-02-12T14:47:34Z")

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