CHAPTER 1
Texturing and Lighting a Product, Part 1
In this chapter and Chapter 2, “Texturing and Lighting a Product, Part 2,” you will texture and light a pair of headphones. This chapter, which contains part 1 of the project, will guide you through the following steps:
- Reviewing the scene file
- Assigning materials
- Creating lights and shadows
- Applying textures
- Raytracing reflections
In addition, important lighting and texturing theory is included as follows:
- Material types and critical attributes
- Hypershade functionality
- Lighting techniques and Maya light types
- Procedural textures
- Scanline and raytraced rendering
Although many tutorials would treat a pair of headphones as a traditional still life, this project approaches the scene as if selling ...
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