Material Basics	Minutes	Seconds
Exploring the material editor user interface	2	59
Setting default material type in editor	1	55
Assigning materials	2	55
Not displaying and unassigning materials	4	11
Understanding editor and scene domains	4	36
Accessing and saving library materials	6	40
Accessing and saving material libraries	4	29
VIZ tool palettes access library materials quickly	3	34
Customizing tool palettes and palette groups	2	18
Material editor mechanics	4	52
Performing material detective work	2	24
Reset, condense, and restore slots in editor	1	59
Previewing materials with scanline renderer	5	48
Light and Shaders
Understanding context of materials in scene	6	12
Diffuse and ambient visual components	4	16
Controlling specular highlights	3	59
Self illumination and opacity	4	10
Exploring shaders and their parameters	8	0
Selecting and transferring color	5	10
Guide to choosing material colors	3	6
Texture Mapping
Exploring the concept of vertex color	3	51
Mapping mechanics in material editor	3	26
Adjusting planar XYZ mapping coordinates	5	56
Understanding texture coordinate controls	5	25
Controlling texture coordinates with UVW Map	5	11
Applying bitmap with planar UVW mapping	7	42
Exploring real world texture coordinates	4	2
Comparing OSM and WSM real world map scalers	3	8
Using the UVW Xform modifier	2	14
Mapping 2D Patterns
Gradient map	3	50
Gradient ramp map	2	35
Swirl map	1	58
Tiles map	4	32
Modifying Color with Maps
Nesting a bitmap within an RGB tint map	3	56
Using output rollout and map	6	6
Applying gradient map and adjust UVW map	3	10
Assigning vertex colors from map to geometry	1	51
Painting color into vertex color channel	4	22
Assigning vertex color map to render vertex channel	2	1
3D Procedural Maps
Cellular map	6	40
Controlling direction of falloff map	6	28
Exploring falloff types	3	59
Making diffuse color bitmap falloff to simulate drapery	4	2
Creating a plaster wall with instanced noise maps	7	33
Compositing Maps
RGB multiply map	2	31
Mask map	4	43
Mix map	5	44
Compositing opaque bitmap	2	38
Creating an alpha channel in Photoshop	3	45
Compositing bitmaps with alpha channel	3	52
Transmitting Light
Basic transparency	2	34
Advanced transparency	3	3
Mapping filter color with falloff	2	14
Bending light quickly with thin wall refraction	3	41
Bending light accurately with raytrace map	3	58
Simulating translucency and opacity with falloff	4	41
Architectural Entourage
Create billboard object and match aspect to bitmap	6	28
Basic masking with opacity map	3	46
Combining diffuse and opacity maps with alpha	4	20
Setting optical qualities for believable entourage	1	52
Strategies for protecting entourage illusion	6	49
Attaching entourage to ground surface	4	15
Simulating Foliage
Scattering leaves within volume to create shrub	5	6
Creating empty particle flow to simulate foliage	3	39
Designing particle flow to display multicolored leaves	7	17
Growing grass with hair and fur modifier	6	47
Mapping or Modeling the Environment
Choosing simple environment color or gradient map	2	40
Use bitmaps with screen coordinates for stills	3	11
Panorama with cylindrical coordinates for walkthrough	3	21
Modeling environment for flyover animation or web3D	5	36
Adding fog to simulate atmosphere	1	53
Mapping Reflection
Bitmaps fake reflection on shiny objects	3	35
Reflect-refract map shoots bitmaps that fake scene	1	42
Flat mirror reflects actual scene quickly	2	44
Raytrace map offers quality reflection but takes time	2	28
Raytrace global options	2	22
Excluding objects from raytracing	1	34
Simulating Surface Relief
Grayscale bitmap creates bump illusion	4	6
RGB multiply map combines two bumps in one	3	29
Piping and buttons simulated with bump	3	18
Displacing a landscape with a bitmap	5	29
Displacing a cushion with gradient ramp	5	7
Using the displace map on top of other displacement	3	45
Baking high poly detail into low poly models	6	8
Designing Complex Materials
Using tiles map to create wood floor plank pattern	5	21
Controlling nested bitmap with map channel 2	5	27
Instancing map tree into multiple components	8	19
Scanline Material Types
Raytrace material	5	14
Architectural material	3	21
Xref material	2	22
MatteShadow material	4	24
Using RenderMatte MAXScript in compositing	2	42
Compositing and masking images in Photoshop	2	29
Wire and hidden line renderings with ink n paint	3	6
Special purpose materials	5	12
Compound Material Types
Blend material	3	33
Composite material	3	27
Double sided material	1	56
Shellac material	2	16
Top bottom material	2	19
Multi-subobject material	5	15
Asset Tracking
Asset tracking with Adobe Bridge	1	58
Asset management with two utilities	3	20
Asset tracking feature and Autodesk Vault	5	20
Total	369	3123
	421	mins
	7.02	hours