From the course: Animating a Landscape with VUE
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Creating a gradient color map - VUE Tutorial
From the course: Animating a Landscape with VUE
Creating a gradient color map
- [Voiceover] At this point, we probably want to see our preview renders in better quality. In the main camera view, right-click on the camera icon and switch it to final quality, and then do a render at that quality, so we can compare to subsequent versions. With that baseline rendering done, let's not edit the color map on our rock island material. Select the object and edit that material. And here's our color map. We can edit the color map either here or from within the function. Right-click and choose Edit color map, and we got a gradient. We can adjust the positions of the key colors. Drag this one over to about zero, because, basically, anything in the negative zone is not going to render in this case. We can create new key colors. Just click anywhere, and you've selected that location, then click new key color, and we can adjust the color at this point. Maybe give that, maybe, a pink. Click OK. And, of course, we can move those key points around. Let's make the top of the…
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