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Creating diffuse color

Creating diffuse color

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Creating diffuse color

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- Given that the V-Ray PowerShader is capable of reproducing all sorts of surface properties and material types for us it is, generally speaking when creating a new material, a good idea to start with the basics and build from there. In this exercise then we're going to focus on create just the diffuse, or color properties of a material that we want to apply to the shelf geometry in our scene. First of all then let's open up the Material Editor using the M key, and right-click to create a new workspace tab, calling it Diffuse. Straight away we can drag out a new V-Ray material for ourselves, calling in Shelves_Diffuse, and then select all of the shelf geometry in the viewport and apply the new material by right-clicking on it, and using the Assign Material to Selection command. The diffuse, or color properties, for the V-Ray material are controlled, naturally enough, from the Diffuse section of the basic parameters rollout. The Roughness parameter we see here can be used to simulate a…

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