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Introducing Autodesk Maya 2015

Chapter 7: Maya Shading and Texturing

Maya topics covered in this chapter include the following:

• Shader Types
• Shader Attributes
• Texturing the Axe
• Life, Love, Textures and

Surfaces

• UVs, oh, UVs!

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Shader Types

• Shader Types

are loosely defined by how they reflect light and highlights (specular)

• Lambert
• Phong
• Phong E
• Blinn
• Anisotropic
• Layered Shader
• Ramp Shader

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Shader Attributes

• Color
• Transparency
• Translucence
• Ambient Color
• Incandescence
• Bump Map
• Diffuse
• Glow
• Specular Color
• Reflectivity
• Reflected Color

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Texturing the Plane

• Adding shaders to

simulate the real materials used in the plane

• Use a noise texture to

simulate the plastic color

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Life, Love, Textures and Surfaces – Texturing the Red Wagon

• Creating shader

networks and file textures

• Understanding the

relationship between meshes and how their textures lay across them is important

• Use ramps to

position colors and textures

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The magic of UVs

• UVs define the coordinate

space along a surface or mesh

• UVs must be laid out well

for textures to be applied properly

• Projection nodes can place

textures on objects with poor UVs

• The UV Editor allows you

to manipulate and export UVs to be painted or aligned in Photoshop

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