3ds Max 9 Bible

This chapter presented the Standard material and gave you a chance to create some simple original materials. In this chapter, you did the following:

• Learned about various material types

• Discovered and learned to use the various material parameters

• Discovered the basics of using standard materials

• Learned how to use the various shaders

• Explored the other Material rollouts

• Learned how to create materials using external tools such as Photoshop and a digital camera

This chapter should have been enough to whet your appetite for materials, and yet it really covered only one material-the Standard material. Many other materials are available, and we dive into those in the next chapter.