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Principled shader - Houdini Tutorial
From the course: Houdini Essential Training
Principled shader
- [Instructor] Now we're going to take a look at how we can create and assign materials in Houdini. So first up we're going to go to the material palatte, which is our third tab over here. If you've changed your window layout, remember any tab you can just change to anything you want, just make sure this is material palette. So what we want to do is first we're going to look at this left side here, and this is all the materials and material presets that ship with Houdini Standard. On the right side here, these are all the various material context that we could put these materials in, so I'm going to close this default/matte area, because we've made this materials network called materials within our overall object level, and that's where we're putting our shaders for this course. So I'm going to open that up, and you can see we have our gold and silver materials already there that I've provided that are presets that I've just brought in there from the material browser here and then I…
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