Session 2: Working with Lights and Shaders

• Homework review

Hands-on: fruit_v2.mb

Subjects:

● Depth Map Shadows cont'd

● Light Manipulator cont'd

● Decay Regions

● Barn Doors

●  IPR


● Light Linking 

● Assigning Materials


● Surfaces and shaders

• Lambert
• Phong, Phong E
• Blinn
• Anisotropic
• Use Background

● Procedural textures

● Navigating shading networks


● Mapping transparency and using high-quality renderer to preview


● Using file textures


● Placement nodes and tiling textures with repeat UV or coverage

● Intro to Hypershade: assigning materials, graphing the network


● Intro to Multilister

● Projection mapping

● Intro to UV mapping

● Displacement and bump mapping 


● Shader glow for bloom

● Render Settings

● Sample rates and anti-aliasing

● Object Shape node: Render Stats


Homework: Finish Fruit Bowl 

Get project files here.