Creating basic paint sheens and colors

…When we're thinking about lighting a space, we need to get materials on.…We also need light to make our materials look good,…so we need both to really get the rendering working properly.…What I'll start with are my materials.…I'll begin with my solid color paints, getting my…different sheens established, and then work into more complex materials.…I'll pull up my hyper shade to begin.…Chosing window rendering editors and hyper shade.…Right now we can see ive got temporary working materials.…These have a pre fix of temp in them.…So I know if I see that in the material attributes or…on an object, I need to replace it with my mental ray materials.…

What I'll be using under mental ray and materials is my mia material x passes.…I'll open up my hypershade a little bit, and slide this slide slider up.…This way I can see the thumbnails a little bit bigger.…I'll use the mia material x passes in my…scenes for well, everything except skin and car paint, really.…What this does is it gives us the possibility of…a smooth surface with a tight highlight if we need.…