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Shading terrain slope with Snow texture

Shading terrain slope with Snow texture - Maya Tutorial

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Shading terrain slope with Snow texture

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- [Instructor] One of the useful Maya shading nodes for natural environments is the snow texture. Despite its name, snow texture is not actually about rendering snow. It's about finding the slope of an object. So it can render to different colors based upon the slope. So render one color in a flat area here and another color and a sheer vertical area like these cliff basis. And once we found that slope, we can use it as a mask between two different textures or materials. In my scene, I've got a terrain material. It's a standard surface and its base color is coming from a layered texture. I'll navigate over in the Hypershade with the middle mouse button. And there are two layers. I've got a terrain snowy Remap Value and terrain base Remap Value. There are two different color sets. They're derived from the same thing. I've got a couple of procedural textures, a crater and a mountain, and I'm adding them together and…

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