4.3 Car Paint material
Another mental ray material type that is interesting and useful is Car Paint. You might think that we had already created car paint using the Arch & Design material in the preceding exercise. The Car Paint material type is intended as a specialized “fancy” paint that has metal flakes which catch the light differently when viewed from different angles. That may seem like a very specialized material that you would very seldom use, but it has attributes that can help draw the viewer’s attention to or away from objects in your scene.
A primary component of the Car Paint material, besides the flakes, is two colors that are displayed based on the viewing angle to the surface. For example, faces on geometry that are perpendicular ...
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