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Use substance materials

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- [Instructor] Adobe's Substance is a standard way to create materials that will work in many different 3D applications. Now Maya supports Substance, so let's take a look at how to use Substance in Maya with Arnold. The first thing you want to make sure that you do is make sure you have Substance turned on in Maya. So I'm going to go to Settings, Preferences, Plug-in Manager and we want to scroll towards the bottom here. You'll see Substance.mll. So you want to make sure that all are loaded and you can also turn on autoload to make sure that they load every time you start Maya. So you just want to make sure that all of those are turned on and then we should be able to use Substance in Maya. Now this is done in the hypershade, so I'm going to go ahead and select my hypershade window and let's go ahead and maximize this. So what I want to do is create what's called a Substance node and then that I can turn into a material. I'm going to hover over my node editor, right-click Create Node.…

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