Maya Advanced Materials 2020

On September 17, 2020

In 3D Animation , Lynda , Maya

Release date:2020, June 29

Author:Aaron F. Ross

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Maya is an industry leader in 3D materials and shaders. The software’s nearly limitless tools for materials and shading enable artists to visualize almost anything. In this course, instructor Aaron F. Ross helps you take material look development to the next level. Accelerate your workflow with tips and tricks on the Hypershade graph and browser in Maya. Learn how to design a wide range of convincing materials with the new Standard Surface shader. Plus, discover how to apply textures to key shading attributes, render transparency and translucency, and add surface detail with bump, normal, and displacement maps.

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001 Introducing Maya – Advanced materials
002 Using the exercise files
003 Options for node creation
004 Optimizing performance
005 Setting renderer attributes
006 Previewing with interactive production rendering
007 Graphing networks
008 Binding hotkeys
009 Displaying attributes and node names
010 Filtering nodes and searching attributes
011 Working with node presets
012 Organizing materials with bins
013 Rendering the standard surface material
014 Balancing reflections with Specular Roughness
015 Using IOR to control reflectivity
016 Adjusting metalness
017 Stretching highlights with Anisotropy
018 Mapping floating-point attributes such as base weight
019 Adding another specular layer with coat
020 Translucency with subsurface scattering
021 Light emission from a surface
022 Controlling transparency with Transmission
023 Tinting transparency with Transmission Depth
024 Translucency with Transmission Scatter
025 Assigning materials to polygon faces
026 Rendering thin-walled geometry
027 Cutout mapping with opacity
028 Bump mapping
029 Normal mapping
030 Prepping level-of-detail models
031 Simulating detail with Transfer Maps
032 Deforming a surface with displacement
033 Next steps