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Work with the Hypershade window

Work with the Hypershade window - Maya Tutorial

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Work with the Hypershade window

- [Instructor] When we create and manage materials, we can certainly do it through the attribute editor. But probably a more efficient way to manage materials is to use what's called the Hypershade window. Now the Hypershade window can be found in one of two places. We can go to Windows, Rendering Editor, Hypershade, and notice this litte icon, because we see it here in the interface on the status line, so if I click this little Hypershade node, it brings up the Hypershade window. Now this window has a lot of stuff, but it's really actually fairly straight-forward. Now, along the top, we have a number of menus here, and these all basically just do stuff that we have in the visual interface, so I'm going to focus mostly on this visual interface. Now the interface itself can be rearranged. You can select any one of these windows and move them around, delete them, do whatever. I'm going to stick with the default interface here. Now up in the top left hand corner, we have the browser, and…

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