Control render appearances

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Control render appearances.

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After completing this video,

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you'll be able to apply and modify appearances.

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In fusion,

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let's carry on with our quadcopter render.

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F3D from the previous video.

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In this video,

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we're gonna talk more about appearances and textures.

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So,

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because of this,

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we're gonna go back into our scene settings,

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and we're gonna use a solid color.

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Turn on our ground plane.

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And we want to go into one of our photo libraries,

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such as the photo booth.

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I'm going to start off with a left view,

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zoom in and rotate just slightly.

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Now that we've got our object in a photo booth,

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we want to talk about the appearances.

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Oftentimes the appearance we see on screen is not

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gonna look the same in a final rendered image.

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You can use the in canvas render to get a little

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bit better preview of what the final appearances will look like.

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Keep in mind that the longer you allow this to go,

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generally the better the results will be.

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As we're looking at this,

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I can see sort of a yellowish glow coming from this object.

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This tells me that it's got a nylon appearance applied,

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and in this part specifically

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was 3D printed with a nylon material.

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But what I want to do is go into my appearances

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and take a look.

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So you can see here we've got a nylon 66 white,

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and there's this the default steel satin.

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The default steel is what's applied to this bottom object here.

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But let's say that we wanted to use a different material.

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Maybe we wanted to use a composite like carbon fiber.

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Now,

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if you can't find it inside of the list here,

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oftentimes you can use the search and start to type in something.

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You can see here that in the Fusion appearance library,

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we've got carbon fiber plane,

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and there's some other materials.

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I'm gonna go ahead and download the carbon fiber plane,

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I'm gonna rotate my object around,

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and I'm gonna apply this to this object on the bottom.

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Then I'm gonna close this and zoom in.

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So when we look at a material like carbon fiber or

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any material or appearance that has a texture to it,

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oftentimes we want to use texture map controls.

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Using texture map controls will allow us to change

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the orientation of that texture on our object.

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In this case,

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I'm gonna change the display mode to UV diagnostic texture,

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will help us understand this a little bit better.

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The green and red arrows are going to

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dictate the direction of that specific appearance.

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We can set this to automatic or we can use a specific appearance type

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to project that onto our object.

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If you're having trouble understanding this,

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you can always go back and show

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the appearance itself,

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and then you can make some adjustments.

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So for example,

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if we set this to cylindrical.

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When we use a cylindrical appearance,

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what this is going to do is it's going to wrap around our part.

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In most cases,

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you're going to find that the automatic option is going to give you the best result,

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but it is important to play around with these and see if

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you have another orientation that makes more sense for your object.

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If you want to copy,

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duplicate,

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or change an appearance,

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you can always go back into your appearance library.

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You can right click and you can duplicate it to make copies.

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So in this case,

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I want to make a duplicate of,

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in this case my nylon material.

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I want to go in and just do a simple edit of the color.

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I'm going to use a darker material.

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And say done.

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This darker material can now be applied.

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So now I'm still using a nylon appearance,

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but it's just a bit darker.

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You can also see that there are some decals here,

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but they seem to be out of place.

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They're not in the correct position.

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And that's something that we can control

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by using our decals.

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In this case,

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if we expand our X,

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you'll notice there's a decals folder here,

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and there are a couple of decals that are applied.

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I'm going to right click and edit the decal.

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The decal right now

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is positioned on our object.

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Let's go ahead and go to a front view,

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rotate this around and pull it into the middle of the screen.

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So this decal seems to be OK,

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but what's happening

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is it's being projected through onto faces behind.

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So this problem here is because of chained faces.

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We want to turn that option off and say,

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OK,

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so it's not projecting through the object and getting stretched out.

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So now everything looks OK with that Autodesk logo,

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it looks like there may be another one over here,

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so we want to right click and edit this one as well.

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Once again,

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we can turn off chain faces,

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make sure that it is applied to the correct location.

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It looks like it's maybe applied to this face.

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We're gonna reselect the face and put it over here.

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Reposition it slightly.

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And say,

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OK.

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So once again,

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making some minor changes to appearances,

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decals,

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as well as the texture mapping

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can make a big difference when it comes down to rendering your objects.

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Let's go ahead and go to a right view,

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noting that it switches to an orthographic view automatically.

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When we're rendering,

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oftentimes we want to set it to perspective only.

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That way we don't get in a situation

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where we're accidentally rendering an orthographic view.

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At this point,

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I think I want to go back into my appearances

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and use this modified black nylon.

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Let's find this one here,

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and drag it and place it on the component tray as well.

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They should be the same material.

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If I want to make any final edits,

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we also have some advanced controls.

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For example,

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we can modify some of the transparency options

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because nylon material does let a little bit of light through.

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If we want to add a texture,

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we can use a bump map.

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If we want it to have some emissivity to it,

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or if we need to use some cut out or advanced highlight controls,

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we have a lot of different options that

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we can change directly in the material editor.

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In this case,

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I simply want to leave it as is,

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so I'm going to select cancel.

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Let's go ahead and close this out and make sure that we

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do save this before we move on to the next step.