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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
8.0 Specific

Setting up a metallic product tube material

Christopher Tyler Dec, 22nd 2013 1 Comment

CX Texturing, CX Version 7 Specific, CX Version 7.5 Specific, Design 3D CX

This texturing tutorial discusses the layering of diffuse and reflective layers in the construction of a plastic type material. It also looks at converting this material to a metallic type material and focuses on the use of the Smoothness value.

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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
8.0 Specific

Affecting edge smoothness with the fresnel interpolator

Christopher Tyler Dec, 19th 2013 0 Comments

CX Advanced, CX Texturing, CX Version 7 Specific, CX Version 7.5 Specific, Design 3D CX

This texturing tutorial shows how to alter the smoothness of a surface using the Fresnel interpolator to simulator a real world material property.

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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Can Metallic Ink, Part 5: Dealing with stencil fringe

Christopher Tyler Dec, 18th 2013 0 Comments

CX Intermediate, CX Texturing, CX Version 7 Specific, CX Version 7.5 Specific, Design 3D CX

This texturing tutorial shows how to deal with a possible artifacts that can show up when using a stencil map, called fringing.

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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Can Metallic Ink, Part 4: Using the Lightdome to light the scene

Christopher Tyler Dec, 13th 2013 1 Comment

CX Intermediate, CX Lighting, CX Rendering, CX Version 7 Specific, CX Version 7.5 Specific, Design 3D CX

This rendering tutorial shows how to use the Lightdome with an HDRI image to light the scene. It shows how to use the Adjust function to customize the light.

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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Can Metallic Ink, Part 3: Setting up the reflectance properties of the materials

Christopher Tyler Dec, 12th 2013 2 Comments

CX Advanced, CX Intermediate, CX Rendering, CX Texturing, CX Version 7 Specific, CX Version 7.5 Specific, Design 3D CX

This materials tutorial walks through the process of setting up the reflectance properties for the label and the gold material.

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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Can Metallic Ink, Part 2: Labels setup

Christopher Tyler Dec, 12th 2013 0 Comments

CX Intermediate, CX UV Mapping, CX Version 7 Specific, CX Version 7.5 Specific, Design 3D CX

This tutorial sets up the labels for the can. It demonstrates how to set up a color label and a stencil component from a starting Illustrator file.

CX Version 7 Specific

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Setting up a metallic product tube material

Affecting edge smoothness with the fresnel interpolator

Can Metallic Ink, Part 5: Dealing with stencil fringe

Can Metallic Ink, Part 4: Using the Lightdome to light the scene

Can Metallic Ink, Part 3: Setting up the reflectance properties of the materials

Can Metallic Ink, Part 2: Labels setup