Assigning materials

- We started to construct our 3D portion of our…compositing network.…We brought in the mesh and the camera from Maya…and then sent it through a renderer.…We have the correct perspective, but one thing…we're missing now is any sense of material.…We could actually add materials and textures if we want…to right here in Fusion.…Let's give that a try.…I'm gonna start by selecting the material,…add tool, 3D, material, here are your choices.…I'll select reflect because I want a highly…reflective surface like car paint.…

Now once you start getting some of these more…specialized tools in your scene, it gets…difficult to remember what is what in terms…of the connections.…One trick is to place your mouse over these…pipe stubs and just see what the read out…says in terms of the channel.…So this is scene input over here is material input.…Actually want to put a material onto this one…so that's good to know.…So output from this into that, now it's not working…yet, in fact, any time you see a red node it means…that there's something wrong upstream, there's…