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Create and apply maps

Create and apply maps - Maya Tutorial

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Create and apply maps

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- [Instructor] Now let's dive a little bit deeper and start to add textures into our materials. Now, I have a simple NURBS sphere here, and if I click on it and go into the Attribute Editor you'll see that I have just a lambert1 applied to it. So, let's go ahead and apply a different material. I'm just going to do this from my Rendering shelf, and I'm going to click on Blend Material. And when I do it gives me this blend material. Now, if I wanted to I could change the color of that material to whatever I wanted. I could effect transparency and so on. But, these are all just solid colors or single values. If I want to have a little bit more texture and variety to my surface, I'll have to start adding in textures. Now, we can do this by clicking on this little checkerboard to the right of the attribute. Now, all of the different types of materials in Maya should have these. So, if you're in Arnold or some other renderer, you'll have a very similar sort of look here. And so I'm going to…

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