- Sun Dec 06, 2009 12:16 pm
#315891
How do I stack a ready-made material on top of another ready-made material through a mask?
Suppose I want to make a checkerboard of blue carpaint and gold metal. I would put the material of my choice on top, in its own layer, and add a checkerboard mask.
So how exactly do you combine two entire materials without laboriously copying the contents of every BSDF or layer? Is there a drag and drop way? And how do you do it in Maya's hypershade?
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Furthermore, I see a lot of people using layers within materials, rather than restricting them to between materials. This seems to make it even harder to quickly layer one full material (of many BSDF's, or more likely of many layers) over another full material through a mask.
Suppose I want to make a checkerboard of blue carpaint and gold metal. I would put the material of my choice on top, in its own layer, and add a checkerboard mask.
So how exactly do you combine two entire materials without laboriously copying the contents of every BSDF or layer? Is there a drag and drop way? And how do you do it in Maya's hypershade?
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Furthermore, I see a lot of people using layers within materials, rather than restricting them to between materials. This seems to make it even harder to quickly layer one full material (of many BSDF's, or more likely of many layers) over another full material through a mask.