INSIDE 3DS MAX® 7 [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Chapter 10. Texture Mapping

By Jon A. Bell

In this chapter, you'll see how the 3ds max 7 Material Editor, when coupled with the wide range of available UVW mapping techniques and modifiers, provides a one-two punch to help you solve almost any texturing problem for almost any conceivable piece of geometry. Whether you're building a complex organic character for a film or video project, a low-resolution poly model for a computer game, or a "hard surface" model for an industrial or architectural visualization, 3ds max 7 gives you the tools you need to make your models look their best.

Specifically, we'll cover the following topics:

• The Material Editor and the Material/Map Browser

• Shader and Material Types

• Map Types: Bitmaps and Procedurals

• Mapping Coordinates (Procedural, Object-Space UVW, and World-Space UVW Mapping)

• Camera Mapping

• Multi/Sub-Object Mapping

Note

For the purposes of this chapter, we'll be looking at the standard 3ds max 7 shader types, materials, and maps for the Default Scanline Renderer only.