
Hit the 6 key to see the texture on the plane. Note: You could also right click on the polyplane and Choose Existing Material>grassMaterial, or you can select the polyPlane in the ViewPort and right click on the grassMaterial in the Hypershade and choose Assign Material to Selected An easy way to do that is to MMB click and drag it from the HyperShade onto the object in the View Port. Now you just need to assign the grassMaterial to your polyplane. Rename the aiStandardSurface1 Shader to M_grass

Every material needs a Shading Group or it will not render). LMB dragging the OutColor from the Grass Color file to the Base Color of the AiStandard SurfaceĪnd the Out Color from the Grass Displacement file to the Displacement Shader in the aiStandardSurface1SG (SG stands for Shading Group. LMB click and drag to make the connections as shown below You need to connect the Out Colors from the two textures to the Base Color and the Displacement Shader. Notice that the png files are in the Work Area of the Hypershade and they automatically come with a Place2dTexture node coming into them. With your mouse over the Work Area, Hit A to frame all the nodes you've created. In this case we want the Grass_001_COLOR.jpg texture and the Grass_001_DISP.png To do that, you can simply LMB click and drag the textures from the Source Images folder in your Finder Window to the Hypershade work area. We need to add the texture to this material.

In the Create Node, Choose the Arnold aiStandardSurface Shader. There are several windows within the Hypergraph. Windows>Rendering Editors>HyperShade or better yet, click on the blue icon at the top of Maya In this case, we will use the two png files (grass_001_DISP and Grass_001_COLOR) in the Displacement Map folder in the Files to Downlod for Class Folder.ĭownload the two png files to your Source Images Folder for your Practice Project or just Download them and then Drag these two files into your Source Images Folder for your practice project.įile>Save Scene As, and save a file called DisplacementMap in your Practice Project.Ĭreate a polygon plane and scale it up a bit.Īdd an aiSkyDome to create some light to see the rendered image. In this tutorial, you will learn a quick way to add a displacement map to an object.Ī displacement map is a high contrast, black and white version of the color map you add to the base layer on an aiStandard Surface Material Displacement maps are a way to use a texture to change the geometry of an object and give it depth.
