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Shading a backdrop matte painting

Shading a backdrop matte painting - Maya Tutorial

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Shading a backdrop matte painting

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- [Instructor] In the last movie we created a matte painting or a planar backdrop. We assigned a surface shader and a texture now let's go into that shading network and for example, give it some transparency. So select that matte painting object and go into the hyper shade window. Once again, I've stripped that hyper shade down to just the graph window and none of the other panels with that matte painting selected where I click in the graph and choose graph materials on viewport selection and we can dolly or zoom in a little bit with ALT + right mouse button and pan around with the middle mouse button. We've got a file node and a shader note here the first thing we want to do is disable any filtration happening in the shader network. That's to avoid any problems with textures being overly soft when they're rendered. Select the file node and go into the attributes with Control + A at the top of the file attributes we…

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