What's with the name MeshStandardMaterial?

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This has been bugging me for a while, but I haven’t wanted to pollute any github feed by asking there :grin:

Most of the other Mesh******Materials name’s are related to their reflectance or shading models:

  • MeshLambertMaterial: Lambertian reflectance, Gouraud shading
  • MeshPhongMaterial: Blinn-Phong reflectance, Phong shading
  • MeshPhysicalMaterial: physically based reflectance, Phong shading
  • MeshStandardMaterial: Also physically based reflectance (just without the reflectivity parameter of the MeshPhysicalMaterial), Phong shading

So what is it about MeshStandardMaterial that is so standard?

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Seems like the discussion is spread around many PRs…

Here’s probably the most relevant one:

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I see, I see. Everything becomes much clearer.

There is one aspect of the name I disagree with though - it’s not really the “standard” material if we are still recommending people to use Phong as the default (as in this recent PR ).

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Yeah, that’s a good point. I guess eventually it’ll become the recommended, but currently it’s still a bit expensive compared to phong…