From the course: Maya: Render Setup System
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Override shaders and materials - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: Render Setup System
Override shaders and materials
- [Narrator] In addition to overriding individual attributes, we can also override entire shaders and materials. So let's take a look at how to do that. I have my Render Setup here. And in this setup I have two layers. One is the layer that we were working on which has the barrels and the hoses change. The second one is a new layer that I just created and that just has the spaceship and the hoses. And all the other geometry is removed and so basically we just created a collection with that geometry and I only included those items that I want to see. So in this case, the spaceship and the hoses. Now, if we want we can replace the materials on objects. Now, this is actually a fairly complex object. If I select this spaceship and I go into the attribute editor, you'll see we have a number of different attributes here. We have one for the body of the ship. We have a matte black, we have a glow shader, we have ones for…
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