From the course: Element 3D Essential Training (2013)

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Faking complex materials

Faking complex materials

Earlier in this chapter we looked at this SUV model and as we mentioned there's really no way that you're going to get this red texture to look like a real car paint job. It just when you're talking about car paint jobs, you need something in a 3D program called Subsurface Scattering. It's for complex materials that have layers with them like the shellac and sheen of a car paint job or like human skin where there are multiple layers of tissue or when you're talking about marble or milk or something like that. But, there is a way where we can fake it with other materials. If I look at the Complex Mats FINAL composition, here I've tweaked things a little bit and this material looks a little more complex and it gets a little bit closer to achieving that subsurface scattering look in 3D programs. And again this functionality is not built into Element right now. This is just a trick that I want to show you where you can fake more complex materials like this so you don't have to have this…

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