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Work with the Hypershade window

Work with the Hypershade window - Maya Tutorial

From the course: Maya 2022 Essential Training

Work with the Hypershade window

- Up until this point, we've created and managed our materials through the Attribute Editor. But there is another way to manage materials and that's called The Hypershade window. Now you can get to this window in one of two ways, you can go into windows, Rendering Editors, Hypershade. Now notice this little icon here because it's right here in the interface. And so let's go ahead and click on this button and open up the Hypershade. Now the Hypershade looks fairly complex but it's actually pretty straightforward. We have a couple of main windows and those windows actually can be moved around if we want. Now we're going to use the default interface just to make things simple. Now along the top you have a whole series of menus but typically we navigate this window by selecting the material and then editing it. So for example if I were to scroll down here, you'll see I have one called TruckBody. If I left-click on that, it…

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