Adding a little color

Now, we have a platform. However, it is just a boring white platform at the moment; let's fix that. We will now create a material and drag it onto the platform in our scene view:

A colorless platform

Let's fix that!:

1. In our Project tab, right-click on the Assets folder. Hover over the Create option at the top of the menu, and click on the Folder option in the submenu:

1. Name this folder Materials.
2. Select the Materials folder in the left panel of the Project view.
3. With this folder selected, click on the Create button.
4. Select Materials from the pop-up menu.
5. When the new material appears, the name text is highlighted, letting you know that you should name it. Name the new material Platform.

We now have a new material waiting for us to change from the boring default white. There is quite an intimidating number of properties to control for a first-time developer. For now, though, we will keep this simple and change the color only.

1. Ensure that the Platform material is selected:

1. With the material selected, let's take a look at our material in Inspector:

1. Click on the Color Box next to the heading Albedo (the one with the icon of the dropper next to it), as follows:

1. When the Color Picker dialog appears, change the RGB values to R= 25, G= 40, and B= 248. This will change the color we are using to deep blue: