multiple shaders on one object?

[luma clark]

okay. figured out that i need a layered shader.

:D

[luma clark]

okay. it appears that the layered shader is not what i need. after playing with it, it appears that it composites (mixes) the shaders. this is not what i need. i need to have two distinct solid textures on one object. any help would be dolby.

please help.

thanks,

luma

[floze]

I guess the most charming way to do this is using mix8layer (http://www.highend3d.com/maya/shaders/, unfortunately I cant link it directly, so you have to search for it).
Assign it to your object, then assign your first shader as the base color, and your second shader as the first layer. Now you have to paint some sort of a 'weightmap' (you could use the 3dpaint tool), whereas black belongs to the first, and white to the second shader. Areas in between will be interpolated, just have an eye on nicely fading 'seams'.
When you got the weightmap, assign it's outAlpha as the opacity factor (called o.factor) of your first layer. Hope that helps.

Alternatively you could assign individual shaders to individual faces. Yeah, that's possible too! ;)
Simply select the desired faces and either assign a brandnew shader via the 'Lighting/Shading' tab of your Render menu, or goto the hypershade, hover over the desired shader, hold down the right mouse button and assign it to the selection.
Good luck! :thumbsup:

[XanderFX]

The transitions in a layered shader are controlled by transparency maps. Look it up in the help files you can also go over to Highend3d.com like floze said and download the painted metal texture (http://www.highend3d.com/files/screen.3d?group=mayashaders&file_id=1018&file_loc=metalmania_2-v1.0-.zip) to see how he set up his Layered Shader

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