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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Texturing subsets: A Spray Paint Can

Rodrigo Duarte May, 30th 2012 1 Comment

CX Intermediate, CX Texturing, CX Version 7 Specific, New in CX Version 7

Strata Design 3D CX 7 allows us to assign different textures to different subsets of a polygon mesh object. We will create a spray paint can to show this new technique.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Frosted glass

Rodrigo Duarte May, 23rd 2012 3 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Texturing

Strata 3D allows us to render blurred transparency. This is a boon for creating materials such as frosted glass. Renderings with blurred transparency are slower but the results are well worth it.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Recursive images (cut, paste and render)

Rodrigo Duarte May, 21st 2012 0 Comments

CX Rendering, CX Texturing

Recursive images are those images in which an element repeats itself "infinitely" on an image. With the power of 3D it is relatively easy to achieve this effect, reusing renders as image maps for a texture and then re-rendering.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Making planets

Rodrigo Duarte May, 18th 2012 7 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Texturing

We will learn how to make planets with spheres and the Solid Terrain and Solid Rock shaders. We will use a Starfield background to finish the scene

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Neon lights with glowing textures

Rodrigo Duarte May, 14th 2012 0 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Lighting, CX Rendering, CX Texturing

The Glow channel in textures, combined with Raydiosity rendering enables us tu create area lights. This tutorial deals with creating a simple neon sign using several path extrudes and glowing textures.

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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
8.0 Specific

Using incidence angle to control the stencil channel

Christopher Tyler May, 13th 2012 4 Comments

CX Texturing, CX Version 7 Specific, Design 3D CX

This texturing tutorial shows how to use the stencil channel to change the appearance of a surface as the curvature changes (using an interpolator like Fresnel or Cosine). This has important implications for materials like metals.

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Texturing subsets: A Spray Paint Can

Frosted glass

Recursive images (cut, paste and render)

Making planets

Neon lights with glowing textures

Using incidence angle to control the stencil channel