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Adding detail with textures

Adding detail with textures - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Adding detail with textures

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- [Narrator] No surface in the real world is perfectly uniform. To reproduce real world materials, we need to vary the shading properties such as base color, across the surface. Images and patterns applied to material parameters are commonly known as textures, maps or texture maps. The original term, texture map referred to the diffuse or base color. Nowadays the term is used more generally to indicate any image or pattern applied across a surface. Common maps include base color, roughness, reflectivity and transparency. Textures come in two essential forms. File maps and procedural maps. A file map is an image stored on disk loaded into memory at render time and applied to the surface. Most file maps are pixel-based bitmap images such as .PNG and .EXR files. Some programs support file maps in vector art formats such as .SVG and Adobe Illustrator .AI. A procedural map is internally generated by the 3D rendering application. It's a pattern or image generated by an algorithm. Procedural…

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