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Creating diffuse color

Creating diffuse color - V-Ray Tutorial

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Creating diffuse color

As the V-Ray material is capable of reproducing all sorts of surface properties and types for us, we thought it would be a good idea to really start working with the basics, and focus initially on creating just the diffuse or color properties for one of the pieces of geometry found in our Walled_Garden_Start scene file. In this scene, we have a number of straightforward objects that have been assigned material types that are extremely common, and found a lot in the world around us. We are going to be working to rebuild these material types, and as we go, we will becoming familiar with the V-Ray material itself, and we are seeing how its controls and parameters work. Now we need to go to the Maya UI. So inside the Maya UI, let's go up to our Window menu, let's come down to Rendering Editors, and let's up Hypershade for ourselves, and just see what we have in here. And as you can see, we have a number of V-Ray materials already set up. These have been assigned to our scene's objects. We…

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