Join George Maestri for an in-depth discussion in this video mental ray materials, part of Maya 2016 Essential Training.
- If you want to dive deeper into materials,…you can start to use Maya's Mental Ray materials.…Now, these only work with the Mental Ray Renderer,…but they give you a lot of nice effects.…So, let's go ahead and just apply some…and see how they look.…I'm gonna go ahead and select this big sphere,…and we can get to these through…the Hypershape window, or through the menu system.…So I'm gonna go into LightingShading…and it's actually not one of these standard materials,…but we can find it through Assign New Material,…or we can find it in the Create Menu in the Hypershape.…
Either way, you'll come up to a menu that looks like this.…And if we click on Mental Ray Materials,…this will show you all the ones…that are available to us at this point.…So the one I want to look for is called…car_paint, and I'm gonna go ahead and select this,…and it applies to my existing object.…Then I'm gonna go into my Attribute Editor…to see some of the parameters here.…So I've got a number of parameters here.…One is Ambient Color, Base Color,…
Author
George Maestri
Released
6/22/2015- Getting familiar with the Maya interface
- Selecting and manipulating objects
- Creating hierarchies and layers in scenes
- Creating polygonal objects
- Extruding a mesh
- Working with subdivision surfaces
- Sculpting a basic landscape
- NURBs modeling
- Creating and applying materials and textures
- Adding lights and cameras to a scene
- Adding depth of field and motion blur
- Rendering
- Animating in Maya
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome33s
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1. The Maya Interface
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Configuring viewports7m 51s
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Navigation4m 29s
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Customizing the interface3m 50s
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2. Selecting and Manipulating Objects
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Selecting objects5m 46s
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Using the Move tool5m 3s
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Rotating and scaling2m 20s
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Manipulating pivots3m 21s
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Duplicating objects3m 6s
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Snapping objects2m 56s
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3. Organizing Maya Scenes
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Working with the Outliner6m 30s
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Creating hierarchies5m 19s
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Grouping objects4m 51s
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Using groups as pivots2m 8s
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Hiding and showing objects5m 37s
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Creating layers4m 38s
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Working with selection masks2m 30s
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4. Creating Polygonal Models
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Creating polygonal objects6m 42s
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Modeling a low poly tree5m 33s
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Combine and Separate3m 39s
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Boolean tools5m 57s
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5. Modeling Polygonal Meshes
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Setting up reference7m 32s
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Using the Extrude tools5m 55s
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Using the Bevel tools2m 52s
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Working with edge loops4m 45s
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Modeling symmetrical objects4m 55s
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Mirroring geometry2m 55s
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Extruding along a path1m 44s
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6. Refining Polygonal Meshes
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Using the Modeling Toolkit2m 18s
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Modeling with lattices3m 6s
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Managing object history4m 28s
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7. Sculpting Meshes
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Sculpting a basic landscape4m 51s
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8. NURBS Modeling Techniques
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NURBS primitives5m 27s
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Using NURBS loft3m 30s
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Using NURBS extrude3m 12s
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9. Refining NURBS Models
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Creating curves on a surface5m 28s
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Trimming NURBS surfaces2m 26s
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Converting NURBS to polygons5m 29s
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10. Creating Materials
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Overview of Maya rendering5m 41s
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Creating and applying maps6m 12s
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Using bitmaps as texture3m 19s
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Using the Ramp material4m 6s
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mental ray materials6m 3s
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11. Applying Materials and Textures
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Understanding the UV Editor4m 36s
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3D painting6m 26s
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12. Rendering in Maya
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Render Settings menu5m 19s
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Creating shadows4m 36s
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Adding depth of field5m 28s
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Using Motion Blur3m 33s
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Batch rendering4m 22s
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13. Animating in Maya
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Creating breakdown keys2m 30s
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Ghosting animation2m 42s
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Creating animation cycles4m 39s
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Adding sound to animations2m 49s
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Conclusion
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Next steps16s
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