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Using a Ramp Texture Create a NURBs plane. Apply a lambert shader to the plane. Apply a Ramp texture on the color attribute for the lambertshader you applied on the plane. Look over the type of Ramps. V Ramp,U Ramp, Diagonal Ramp, etc: (ex. a Circular Ramp might be used for a bump on the […]

Apply a Bitmap as a Texture Create a NURBs plane. – Make sure the plane is a complete square. – Press 5 to turn shading on. – Turn Hardware Texturing On Create a material to place your bitmap on. – Decide what type of material you are creating. – In this example I created a […]

Mental Ray Materials Mental Ray offers materials and shaders useable oly with Mental Ray. Turn on Mental Ray – Go to MAIN || Window > Setting/Preferences > Plug-In Manager. – Go to Mayatomr.mll and check Load and Auto Load. Set your Renderer to mental ray – Click on the Render Settings button. – Make sure […]

IPR Renderer IPR Renderer is an interactive renderer that allows you to change parameters and see them update real-time. Create a NURBs sphere. Apply a phong texture to the sphere. Press 5 to activate shaded view. Click on the IPR Render Button Draw a marquee surrounding our object for the area the  object will update. […]

Using the Hypershade Window Create a NURBs sphere. Apply a phongE material to the sphere. For the color attribute apply a texture map by clicking on the checkered icon to the right of the color section. This brings up a window of textures. Apply a cloth texture. For the cloth texture V color, apply a […]

Apply a Ramp Texture Create a NURBs Surface Torus – Apply a ramp texture to the torus Adjust the Ramp Textures Properties – Select the surface – Open up the Attribute Editor – Click on rampShader1 in the Attribute Editor. – Notice for the Color section, there is a gradient map Selected Color: Pick as […]

Applying a Texture Map  Create a Polygonal Sphere and add a Blinn Material – Select your surface and select Blinn from the Render Tab. Adjust Materials Attribute Settings – Open up the Attribute Editor. – Select the furthermost right tab Blinn. – Change the color to red. Map a Texture to the Color attribute of […]

Here are Maya’s Basic Materials.  Create a surface to apply the material – Click on SURFACES TAB and click on the NURBs sphere. – [ PRESS 5 ] to apply shade mode. – If I select the material, I can apply a material. By default it has a lambert shader applied. Lambert  is a flat […]

Maya Renderers There are 2 Maya Renderers Mental Ray and Maya Software renderer. Mental Ray Loading Mental Ray: – Mental Ray will need to be loaded in the Plug-In Manager. – Go to MAIN || Window > Settings and Preferences > Plug-In Manager. – Turn on Mayatomr.mll. Selecting your Renderer: – Go to the Render […]