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Base color and specular roughness

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Base color and specular roughness

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- [Instructor] Picking up from the last movie, let's continue exploring the Arnold Standard Surface. I have the Hypershade Window open and I got Arnold running in the perspective viewport. The most important parameters of a physically-based material, such as the Arnold Standard Surface, are its base color and its specular roughness. We'll use those attributes to create a simple paint material for the chassis of the espresso machine. Let's go over to the Hypershade and clear out the graph. Let's create a new Arnold Standard Surface. We can do that by using the Tab key to search for a node name. Press Tab and type in aist, and from the popup list, choose AI Standard Surface. That node and its shading group are created. Select the material node and let's rename it in the Property Editor. Call it paint cocoa aISTAF. Press Enter and select that name, and copy it with Control + C. Select the shading group node. We can…

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