3d art

Applying textures and materials
Applying textures is where everything comes together
Overall
material
All of the interior textures
were multi/sub-object
materials. Although it
saves space in the
material editor, the
polygons will shift once
you smooth it. The tyre
material is a standard
material with a dark grey
diffuse and low Specular
and glossiness setting.
k Set the value of the shellac
colour blend to 85
11 Making car paint
Make a shellac material. For the base material, the
Specular level is 120 and glossiness is 60. Go to the
diffuse and choose falloff. Set the first colour to black
and second colour to dark grey. Change the falloff type
to perpendicular/parallel. Change the line to a curve to
where the two endpoints touch the left and top line. Go
to the parent and go into the shellac material and change
it to a ray-trace material. Change the diffuse to black;
Specular level is 160 and glossiness is 90. Go to Reflect
and choose falloff and falloff type Fresnel k.
12 Tinted glass material
Start off with a standard material. Change the shader
parameters to Phong and check ‘2-sided’. Change the
diffuse colour to black. Specular level is 100, glossiness
60 and soften is 0.4. In Extended Parameters choose
In; Amt is 100, Type is subtractive and Index of Retraction
is set to 1.32. Reflection Dimming is checked, with the
Reflection level set to 3.95 l.
Artist
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Tyree Ross
I have been drawing since the age of ten and a
graphic artist for seven years. I was introduced to 3D
artistry six years ago. In college I fell in love with 3ds
Max. Since then, I have been self-taught with
my modelling.
The Boss 3ds Max (2010)
The Boss is my interpretation
of a concept Harley-style
motorcycle. It was built with
two motors, dual exhaust and
wide tyres for handling.
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m
l You can change the colour
in the diffuse map to achieve
different effects
m Set the refraction in the
falloff to 1.5
13 Chrome paint material
The chrome material is similar to the
car paint material except for a few
things. Your base material is a raytrace
material. Shading is Phong, the
diffuse is black, and your falloff
material in the reflection slot is set to
a light grey (and the bottom colour is
white). Specular level is set to 100 and
the glossiness is set to 70. The shellac
base is a standard material with the
Specular level at 100 and glossiness
at 20. The shellac blend is 50 m.
250