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Maya is an industry leader in 3D materials and shaders. In this course, learn how to create convincing physically based materials in Maya.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Introducing Maya: Advanced materials
- Using the exercise files
- Options for node creation
- Optimizing performance
- Setting renderer attributes
- Previewing with interactive production rendering
- Graphing networks
- Binding hotkeys
- Displaying attributes and node names
- Filtering nodes and searching attributes
- Working with node presets
- Organizing materials with bins
- Rendering the standard surface material
- Balancing reflections with Specular Roughness
- Using IOR to control reflectivity
- Adjusting metalness
- Stretching highlights with Anisotropy
- Mapping floating-point attributes such as base weight
- Adding another specular layer with coat
- Translucency with subsurface scattering
- Light emission from a surface
- Controlling transparency with Transmission
- Tinting transparency with Transmission Depth
- Translucency with Transmission Scatter
- Assigning materials to polygon faces
- Rendering thin-walled geometry
- Cutout mapping with opacity
- Bump mapping
- Normal mapping
- Prepping level-of-detail models
- Simulating detail with Transfer Maps
- Deforming a surface with displacement
- Next steps
Taught by
Aaron F. Ross
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