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Material Management

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Material Management

Efficiently manage multiple materials:

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Material Instances and Cloning

// Clone a material
const material2 = material.clone("material2");
material2.diffuseColor = new BABYLON.Color3(0, 1, 0); // Change color to green

// Create material instances (shares resources but allows property overrides)
const materialInstance = material.instantiateForInstance();
materialInstance.diffuseColor = new BABYLON.Color3(0, 0, 1); // Blue variant