From the course: Rhino and V-Ray: Rendering

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Material types and their best uses

Material types and their best uses

From the course: Rhino and V-Ray: Rendering

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Material types and their best uses

In this video we'll take a guided tour of the materials editor, and check out all the material types available. But, be aware that most of these are very specialized or only intended for advanced users. After this tour is over we'll be sticking with only two materials. Let's open up our material editor, it's on the V-Ray toolbar here, click on the M button. And I've already got some materials in here. Let's look at all the ones that are available. So, we access those by going to the top level under see materials, right clicking, and then under crate material, these are all the types we'll be discussing. First one I'll list is angle blend, I've already got one of those in the scene here. And, what's interesting about this is, it uses two other existing materials to make a transition. You can see in the preview, it's kind of cool. We're going from a glossy green material to glossy purple, and you can change the values of where those change in the start angle and the stop angle. So for…

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