From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS Materials and Rendering James Martin High School Computer Multimedia and Animation Instructor: G. Patton

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 1. What does the term Rendering mean? Rendering is applying color and shading to an object.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 2. What are the three media that have been traditionally used to produce renderings? Paint Charcoal Pencil chalk.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 3. What is a material in 3ds Max? A material is a set of data defining how an object should appear when rendered by 3ds max. A material controls such qualities as the color of the object, how light reflects off the object, and any surface textures applied.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 4. What is considered the control room for materials? The Material Editor

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 5. What is the modeless dialog box? A modeless dialog box is a dialog box that allows you to continue to work in the background without having to close it.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 6. What is the maximum number of materials that can be displayed at one time in the Material Editor? 24

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 7. What are the two locations where a material name is displayed in the Material Editor? In the drop-down list below the material samples In the Material Editor title bar.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 8. What is a Material library? A material library is a file in which material definitions are stored.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 9. Why should material libraries be used? They allow you to apply materials to different models without having to recreate the same materials.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 10. To use a saved material in your model, what must you first do to it? Get

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 11. What purpose does the Material/Map Browser serve for materials? It serves as “file manager” or Explorer.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 12. In the Material/Map Browser, how do you display the materials in the current material library? Pick the Mtl Library radio button in the Browse From: area.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 13. How do you place a material listed in the Material/Map Browser into the Material Editor? Locate the name of the material in the material/map list and then double- click on the name.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 14. What are the two basic ways of applying a material to an object? Pick, hold, and drag the material sample into a viewport and drop it onto an object, first select the object, locate the material in the Material Editor, and then pick the Assign Material to Selection button.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 15. What is the purpose of the Render Scene dialog box? It’s the control room

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 16. What are the three ways to open the Render Scene dialog box? Pick the Render Scene button on the Main toolbar, select Render… from the Rendering pull-down menu, press [Shift][R] on the keyboard.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 17. What is the purpose of the Production and Draft buttons in the Render scene dialog box and on the Main toolbar? The Draft and Production buttons allow you to set up two renderings with different settings. The Draft button may be used for a low- resolution rendering and the Production button may be used for a final render.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 18. How do you save a rendered image to a file? Pick the Files… button in the Render Output area of the Render Scene dialog box. In the Render Output File dialog box, enter a name for the file, Pick a file format, Pick Save. Then, make the appropriate settings in the resulting dialog box that corresponds to the specified file format.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 19. After a rendered image is saved, how do you view the file? Pick View File… from the File pull- down menu. Then select the file in the View File dialog box Pick the Open button to view the file.

From: CHAPTER 7– Materials and Rendering 3DS MAX AND ITS APPLICATIONS 20. What aspect of 3ds max provides an interactive rendered preview of the scene? ActiveShade