{"id":1702,"date":"2012-09-05T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2013-07-22T16:36:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:36:56","slug":"lmt04-creating-a-ramp-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/2012\/09\/05\/lmt04-creating-a-ramp-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Texturing:1.3 Creating a Ramp Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Apply a Ramp Texture<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a NURBs Surface Torus\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Apply a ramp texture to the torus<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/2012\/09\/05\/lmt04-creating-a-ramp-material\/lynda_materialstextures__027\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1703\" title=\"lynda_materialstextures__027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__027.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjust the Ramp Textures Properties\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Select the surface<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Open up the Attribute Editor<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Click on <em>rampShader1 <\/em>in the Attribute Editor<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Notice for the <em>Color <\/em>section, there is a gradient map<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/2012\/09\/05\/lmt04-creating-a-ramp-material\/lynda_materialstextures__028\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1704\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1704\" title=\"lynda_materialstextures__028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__028.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Selected Color:<\/strong> Pick as many colors and the object will blend to each color.<\/li>\n<li>ex:<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/2012\/09\/05\/lmt04-creating-a-ramp-material\/lynda_materialstextures__029\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1705\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1705\" title=\"lynda_materialstextures__029\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__029.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1181\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__029.gif 1181w, http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__029-590x172.gif 590w, http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__029-950x277.gif 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1181px) 100vw, 1181px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Here we applied two colors and rendered the result.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Notice the overall color is blue but the shadows are a deep purple.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; You can change the affect of the colors by <em>Color Input.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8211; <strong>Color Input: <\/strong>Changes the direction of the light onto the object.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>ex: Facing Angle: This adjusts the color to whatever is facing the camera, one color is apparent while whats not facing the camera is another.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/2012\/09\/05\/lmt04-creating-a-ramp-material\/lynda_materialstextures__030\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1707\" title=\"lynda_materialstextures__030\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__030.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"979\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__030.gif 979w, http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__030-590x210.gif 590w, http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__030-950x339.gif 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjusting other Ramp Attributes\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; You can adjust the <em>Transparency<\/em> and the <em>Incandescence<\/em> as a ramp. Ex: For materials like glass and silk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apply a Ramp Texture Create a NURBs Surface Torus &#8211; Apply a ramp texture to the torus Adjust the Ramp Textures Properties &#8211; Select the surface &#8211; Open up the Attribute Editor &#8211; Click on rampShader1 in the Attribute Editor. &#8211; Notice for the Color section, there is a gradient map Selected Color: Pick as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autodesk-maya","category-textures-for-maya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}