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• 1. Material Building Essentials
  
  Building a realistic material
  
  Material Editor overview
  
  Important Material Editor tools and icons
  
  When the sample slot looks wrong
  
  Applying and retrieving materials
  
  Copying and pasting materials and maps
  
  Using the Asset Browser
  
  Selecting the left rendering engine
  
  2. Material Shader Types
  
  Blinn
  
  Phong
  
  Oren-Nayer-Blinn
  
  Metal
  
  Strauss
  
  Anisotropic
  
  Multi-Layer
  
  Translucent
  
  3. Material Map Channels
  
  Diffuse
  
  Bump
  
  Opacity
  
  Specular Level and Specular Color
  
  Self-Illumination
  
  Reflection
  
  Refraction
  
  Displacement
  
  4. Material Types
  
  Standard
  
  Blend
  
  Double-Sided
  
  Top/Bottom
  
  Multi Sub-Object
  
  Matte Shadow
  
  Ink and Paint
  
  Mental ray arch and design materials
  
  Mental ray ProMaterials
  
  5. Creating Surfaces and Textures with Maps
  
  Bitmap editing
  
  Using noise maps
  
  Using other procedural maps
  
  Using gradient maps
  
  Creating realistic reflections
  
  Using composite maps to layer images
  
  Using mix maps
  
  Adjusting the color of a map
  
  6. Mapping Techniques
  
  The UVW map modifier
  
  Mapping coordinate types
  
  Controlling map placement on a surface
  
  The importance of mapping location in the Modifier Stack
  
  Mapping at the sub-object level
  
  Mapping lofted objects
  
  Using multiple map channels
  
  The Unwrap UVW modifier
  
  Pelt mapping
  
  7. Advanced Material Applications
  
  Animating materials and maps
  
  Creating realistic glass
  
  Creating and positioning decals
  
  Creating billboard tree maps
  
  Using material ID numbers to add glow
  
  8. Material Libraries
  
  Material library essentials
  
  Creating a custom material library
  
  Accessing materials from a different project
  
  9. Project: Using Bitmaps to Build a Complex Material
  
  Creating a metal rivet
  
  Building the hot metal material
  
  Tweaking the materials
  
  Animating the look of the hot metal material
  
  10. Project: Creating Materials and Mapping and Adding Them to
  
  a Medieval Dagger
  
  Building the handle material
  
  Building the hand guard material
  
  Building the trim material
  
  Building the blade material
  
  Applying and mapping the handle material
  
  Applying and mapping the hand guard and trim materials
  
  Applying and mapping the blade material
  
  Applying the final touches MB
  
  11. Project: Combining 3ds Max and Photoshop to Create a Company Logo
  
  Building the logo in Photoshop
  
  Adding the text
  
  Creating the image's alpha channel
  
  Creating the logo material in 3ds Max
  
  Mapping the object using multiple map channels