Materials

Sahil Bhardwaj

can anyone tell me the use of materials in maya....Like what material I used for cement,or plastic.like if iam making a concrete wall which material i choose blinn or phong or some other material for texturing.Explain material use pls....

antweiler

Use Phong or Blinn for Shiny stuff and lambert for dry concrete. Be aware that Mayas standard materials (Phong/Blinn, Lambert) were created for the legacy Maya renderer, and are not physically based. Modern renderers like Arnold and Mental Ray have their own physically based materials, so if you want to render out cool stuff with an advanced render engine you should look at these.

Sahil Bhardwaj

so which mental ray material is good for concrete like cement effect.