3DS Max Tips - Materials II

• Maps used to vary colours
• Procedural map - generated by max with different parameters
• Go to parent goes back to material level
• Third button in on right is material map navigator
• Gizmo under modifier tab to move projection of uvw map
• Don't scale gizmo, this will make it different to numbers to those shown in options
• Reflection - ray trace map - calculates reflections or refraction
• Reflection dim should be set to something like 0.4 to avoid blacks where there are no reflections
• Environment - create sphere - object properties - back face cull combined with flipping service normal - modifier list - normals - flip normals
• Play with tiles on skydome e.g. 2 by 2 - mirroring can get rid of seam issue
• Bump map - changes lighting and rendering of object not actual shape 
• Bump channel - noise - bump effect - could use for snow



• Slate
• Apply procedural to standard 
• Red strip on nodes shows it is active in viewport
•  Shift and drag makes copy of node in slate including attached nodes
• U = width W = height
• Smaller number on the uvw map will result in higher quality
• UVW can be rotated and aligned
• Reflections map - ray trace - (for environment - rendering - environment - map - metal should have black diffuse and much reflection)
• Vew port canvas - paint on surface of object - add uvw map for better mapping - tools - viewport canvas -  create texture file on hard drive -    can paint on surface or on 2d map
• Open custom image folder and add items in
• right click to commit paint
• Can save as psd to maintain layers