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Maya: Advanced Materials

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Provider

LinkedIn Learning
Pricing

Free Trial Available
Languages

English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Duration & workload

2 hours 11 minutes
Sessions

On-Demand
Level

Intermediate

Found in

Part of

Master Maya

Overview

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Maya is an industry leader in 3D materials and shaders. In this course, learn how to create convincing physically based materials in Maya.

Syllabus

Introduction

Introducing Maya: Advanced materials
Using the exercise files

1. Hypershade Tips and Tricks

Options for node creation
Optimizing performance
Setting renderer attributes
Previewing with interactive production rendering
Graphing networks
Binding hotkeys
Displaying attributes and node names
Filtering nodes and searching attributes
Working with node presets
Organizing materials with bins

2. Standard Surface Physical Materials

Rendering the standard surface material
Balancing reflections with Specular Roughness
Using IOR to control reflectivity
Adjusting metalness
Stretching highlights with Anisotropy
Mapping floating-point attributes such as base weight
Adding another specular layer with coat

3. Ray Tracing and Geometry

Translucency with subsurface scattering
Light emission from a surface
Controlling transparency with Transmission
Tinting transparency with Transmission Depth
Translucency with Transmission Scatter
Assigning materials to polygon faces
Rendering thin-walled geometry
Cutout mapping with opacity

4. Surface Relief

Bump mapping
Normal mapping
Prepping level-of-detail models
Simulating detail with Transfer Maps
Deforming a surface with displacement

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Aaron F. Ross

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