In this tutorial I will show you how to build a Car paint shader in Maya. Though this tutorial is for Maya, you may use similar concepts in other packages as well. The terms may be different. To create a car paint shader we will be using a layered shader. There will be two layers in this shader, one for the color and the other for the reflections and highlights. Think of it in terms of a real car paint. You have a base color and on top of it a clear coat which adds the gloss to the paint
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In this tutorial you will learn how to use the alpha channel of your projected image to “stencil” your image over/under other images on your geometry with the use of a layered shader. first off build your self a nurbs sphere, make it look some thing like this:
(You don’t have to but it will look better!)
Open up your MultiLister and create a BlinnSG (Make sure Shading group is ticked).
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