bevy_material.md

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title: "New crate `bevy_material`"
pull_requests: [22426]

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Various material-related machinery where extracted from bevy_pbr and bevy_render into a new crate called bevy_material.

The following were moved from bevy_render to bevy_material:

• AlphaMode

• SpecializedMeshPipelineError

The following were moved from bevy_pbr to bevy_material:

• OpaqueRendererMethod

• ErasedMeshPipelineKey, ErasedMaterialPipelineKey, ErasedMaterialKey, ErasedMaterialKeyVTable, RenderPhaseType

• MaterialProperties

The following were moved from bevy_render to bevy_material but do not require migration thanks to re-exports:

• BindGroupLayoutDescriptor, RenderPipelineDescriptor, NoFragmentStateError, VertexState, FragmentState, ComputePipelineDescriptor

• ShaderLabel, DrawFunctionLabel, DrawFunctionId

• BindGroupLayoutEntryBuilder, BindGroupLayoutEntries, DynamicBindGroupLayoutEntries, IntoBindGroupLayoutEntryBuilder, IntoIndexedBindGroupLayoutEntryBuilderArray