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Controlling viewport material shading

Controlling viewport material shading - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Controlling viewport material shading

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- [Instructor] Before talking about texture maps, I want to give an overview of how textures are displayed in the viewports. And that's important because you can always rely on an active shade interactive production rendering. A lot of times it's too slow for you to be able to actually do things like place and map on a surface, and you do need to rely on the textures in the viewport. Previously in the course, we saw how to change the shading modes in each viewport label menu. If you click on the shading mode, which is currently labeled standard, you can go in there to materials and choose a shading mode, and this'll be global for all of the scene materials, in other words, all of the materials that are applied onto objects in the scene. And these options here will not affect any material that is not applied onto an object. We've got two basic options here: shaded materials and realistic materials. Shaded is also known as…

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