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Building an Arnold shading network

Building an Arnold shading network - Maya Tutorial

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Building an Arnold shading network

- Continuing from the previous movie, we'll build an Arnold shading network to combine the ambient occlusion with a noise map. Once again, Arnold is already running in the camera view port, and I've got hyper shade open. Rearrange the graph as necessary to reveal that we've got two shading nodes here, two materials. We've got the ambient occlusion shader and also an Arnold standard surface. The ambient occlusion is currently assigned. Let's assign the Arnold standard surface. Select the frame in the view port, right click near the top of the Arnold standard service node. From the marking menu, choose a side material to view port selection, and then deselect everything, from the main Maya menu choose select, deselect all. I've got a bump map already on the material to isolate the different shading effects. Let's temporarily disable that bump map. We can track around or navigate with the middle mouse button. Select the…

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