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# Material

Changes the colouring of the selected 3-D object.

Material

To access this command...

Open the context menu of the 3-D object, choose 3-D Effects - Material tab.

## Material

Assigns a predefined colour scheme or lets you create your own colour scheme.

### Favourites

Select a predefined colour scheme, or select User-defined to define a custom colour scheme.

### Object colour

Select the colour that you want to apply to the object.

### Select Colour Through the Colour Dialogue Box

LibreOffice lets you define custom colours using a two-dimensional graphic and numerical gradient chart of the Pick a Colour dialogue box.

Press the Colour Dialogue Box button in the Illumination tab of the 3-D Effects dialogue box.

### Illumination colour

Select the colour to illuminate the object.

### Select Colour Through the Colour Dialogue Box

LibreOffice lets you define custom colours using a two-dimensional graphic and numerical gradient chart of the Pick a Colour dialogue box.

Press the Colour Dialogue Box button in the Illumination tab of the 3-D Effects dialogue box.

## Specular

Sets the light reflection properties for the selected object.

### Colour

Select the colour that you want the object to reflect.

### Select Colour Through the Colour Dialogue Box

LibreOffice lets you define custom colours using a two-dimensional graphic and numerical gradient chart of the Pick a Colour dialogue box.

Press the Colour Dialogue Box button in the Illumination tab of the 3-D Effects dialogue box.

### Intensity

Enter the intensity of the specular effect.

### Apply

Click here to apply the properties shown in the dialogue box to the selected object.

Apply

### Update

Click here to view in the dialogue box all the properties of the selected object.

Update

### Preview Field

Displays a preview of the current selection.

### Convert to 3-D

Use this icon to convert a selected 2D object to a 3D object. You can also select several 2D objects and convert them to one single 3D object. To convert a group of 2D objects to 3D, you must first ungroup the selected objects.

Convert to 3-D

### Convert to Rotation Object

Click here to convert a selected 2D object to a 3D rotation object. You can also select several 2D objects and convert them to one single 3D rotation object. To convert a group of 2D objects to 3D, you must first ungroup the selected objects.

Convert to Rotation Object

### Perspective On/Off

Click here to turn the perspective view on or off.

Perspective On/Off