Resources/Material

Material

Resource Type	Materials
File Extension	.material
Used In Games	Sonic Unleashed Sonic Colors Sonic Generations Sonic Lost World Sonic Colors Ultimate Sonic Generations (2024 remaster) Sonic Forces Sonic Origins Sonic Origins Plus Sonic Frontiers Shadow Generations
Container Format	MIRAGE
Editing Tools	HedgeEdit Restoration Issue Pocketknife HEIO
Reverse Engineering Status	Done

Model Pointcloud is a fileformat used since Sonic Frontiers, that's used to create terrains (.terrain-model/.model) using a collection of instances with resource names.

Materials, stored in .material files, are the general purpose format for storing surface rendering information, specifying shaders, textures and shader parameters.

Shader

[TODO]

Game shaders

Each game has its own list of shaders:

• Sonic Unleashed
• Sonic Generations
• Sonic Lost World
• Sonic Forces
• Sonic Origins
• Sonic Frontiers
• Shadow Generations

Textures

Each shader specifies its own set of textures and how they are used.

Every material comes with a list of textures, each item having the following properties:

[TODO]

Texturing systems

The texturing systems between Hedgehog Engine games and Hedgehog Engine 2 games are mostly consistent:

• Hedgehog Engine
• Hedgehog Engine 2

Parameters

[TODO]