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Apply multiple materials to objects - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya 2023 Essential Training
Apply multiple materials to objects
- [Instructor] In Maya, objects can have one or more materials applied. So sometimes you'll have to apply multiple materials to a single object. So let's take a look at this tower. Now, this tower was built by combining a bunch of different polygonal objects. And what we want is we want a bunch of different materials on it as well. Now, I already have some materials set up in this scene. So I've to go into Windows. Rendering Editors, Hypershade. You'll see that I have a couple of materials here. I have a concrete material. I have a material for the light. I have a red and white stripe material. And so on. So I want to apply each one of these to the appropriate place on the model. So, we can do this just by selecting, on a face-by-face basis, those parts of the model we want to apply the material and then applying that material. So it's pretty simple. So let's start from the bottom up here. So I'm going to…
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