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Rendering metallic surfaces with Metalness

Rendering metallic surfaces with Metalness - Maya Tutorial

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Rendering metallic surfaces with Metalness

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- [Instructor] For metallic objects, use the Metalness attribute of the Arnold Standard Surface. In this scene Arnold is already running in the perspective viewport, and I've got Hypershade open. Click Rearrange Graph if necessary to frame the material assigned to the front panels of the espresso machine. It's an Arnold Standard Surface with default parameters named Chrome AISDSF. So we can better see the effect of Metalness, let's temporarily bring the base color weight down to zero. And now we're only seeing specular reflections in the rendering. The default Specular Roughness is 0.2. If we bring that down to zero, we'll start to get coherent reflections and surfaces. Tumble around with Alt and Left Mouse Button to confirm that we have sharp specular reflections here in the surface, but this is not a mirror reflection per se. It doesn't reflect all of the light back to the scene. For that we need a metallic surface…

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