Material Tutorials

[flashawd]

Can anyone link me too any good materials tutorials? - I am trying to figure out the basics of creating them. Here is a link to a really good one, but a little advanced for me at this point.

 

http://www.colins-loft.net/free/mats/Demon_Skin_Material.htm

 

Thankyou - Eric

[johnl3d]

Are you intersted in using Hash materials or decals to texture?

[flashawd]

Hi John - thanks for your reply - that's the deal - I don't know. I didn't know you could texture with a decal? I thought to get a texture you had to create a material. I just need to start from square one - that's why I was looking for a basic material tutorial - like lizard skin or something. Can you add a decal and a material to an object? I have been looking through the Technical Reference, but it is a little too informational than tutorial. Thanks - Eric

[johnl3d]

Hopefully the experts around here can give you tips

 

But decals can be used for bump and color

[Caroline]

I would suggest The Art of Animation:Master, exercises 10 (decal) and 14 (materials).

 

You can see the videos that go with that manual here:

http://www.hash.com/2007web/vm.htm

 

You can see TAoA:M manuals here:

http://www.hash.com/2007web/manual.htm

[flashawd]

Thank you John and Caroline.

[johnl3d]

Here is an quick sample of ways to texture

 

 

left to right

 

simple AM material scale and cell turb plated

 

simbiot darktree material ...dinoskin

 

 

or decal in this case same one applied twice once for color and once for slight displacement