Shading Help

# 1 24-11-2009 , 11:29 PM

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So I was working in proxy mode trying to make the bear Moog from Open Season when it stopped letting me put it in shaded mode, it looks like its always in x-ray but I checked and re checked and its not x-ray shaded and I cant figure it out, here is a screeney.

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# 2 25-11-2009 , 12:37 AM

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Assign the lambert1 shader to it.

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# 3 25-11-2009 , 04:40 AM

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ima try it when in the next hour or so, im going to be a little upset with my self if it's that simple. Will let you know how lame i feel after i do it

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# 4 25-11-2009 , 05:45 AM

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When you use smooth proxy, it automatically assigns a transparent material to the object. The point of this, is so that you can view the low resolution geometry, as well as the high resolution.

If you're using 2009 or 2010, you can select your low poly, and use the short cuts 1, 2, and 3 to do roughly the same thing.

1 - Low poly only
2 - Low poly cage with high poly
3 - High poly

Hope this helps.

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# 5 25-11-2009 , 08:10 PM

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I use Maya 8 so im not sure what the hot keys for that are, 1 2 and 3 are smoothers for nurbs i believe. I will have to look around and see if I find something for those, thanks I didnt know that doing proxy mode gave it a transparency.

As for GecT thanks i ended up just changing the transparency for it, figured that was a little easier then giving it a new material.

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# 6 25-11-2009 , 09:54 PM

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Originally posted by Ozgalis
I use Maya 8 so im not sure what the hot keys for that are, 1 2 and 3 are smoothers for nurbs i believe. I will have to look around and see if I find something for those, thanks I didnt know that doing proxy mode gave it a transparency.

As for GecT thanks i ended up just changing the transparency for it, figured that was a little easier then giving it a new material.

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I don't believe the 1,2,3 hotkeys for smoothing work on polys in 8.0. And the "Lambert1" wouldn't really be a new material, it's actually the default material. Right click object>Assign Existing material>lambert1. Instead of having to fiddle with two shaders that look the same.

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