Maya 2015

Lecture Details

Prior to developing textures for a model it is a good idea to setup the base materials. A material is not the same thing as a texture itself. Think for instance that not all metal objects are the same color but they do all share similar characteristics including their specularity, reflectivity and so on. While a diffuse texture will define the color of the object the material will be used to define many other attributes. The three primary materials that will be most commonly used are the Blinn, Phong and Lambert. A Blinn is primarily the material that is used for metal objects like those that would be made from iron or steel. A lambert is much like a bland material such as cloth or carpet and a Phong would be what you would assign to a plastic object.

It is a great idea to identify exactly how many materials will make up an object. Once we have identified exactly how many materials we will need for our object we will open the Hypershade Editor. Using the Hypershade Editor we can view all of the materials within our scene file. We can also use the Hypershade Editor to quickly create multiple materials at the click of a button. As we develop our material library we will give each of the new materials a name so that we can identify them easily. After we have created all the materials that we will need for our object we will go ahead and cover some of the various methods that can be used to assign them to the objects surface.

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