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Adding a clear coat

Adding a clear coat - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Adding a clear coat

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- [Instructor] To conclude our chapter on hard-surface materials with the Physical Material, let's look at adding a clear coat, so we can have the effect of, for example, varnished wood. We've got our bumpy metal here. Let's change that up. Set the Bump Map value down to zero, and make it a white Reflection Color. Set the Metalness to a value of zero. Set the Reflection Roughness to .6 and the Index of Refraction here to 1.5. Now we've got our base diffuse material, and it's got some subtle highlights here because we have a Roughness of 0.6. Up at the top of the Material Editor, we'll see Coating Parameters roll out. Open that up, and it's defaulted to a white clear coat color. Let's increase the clear coat amount to its maximum of one, and immediately we see the effect here of an extra layer of specular highlights. We can change that color, click in the swatch, just give it a little bit of a pink color, and immediately we see how that's going to affect the underlying color, which is…

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