Maya tutorials:material animation

A object like cylinder might not seem to rotate
only by the keyframe of the rotation being set.
The material will have to be set appropriately.
How to animate the materials is explained here.

A cylinder rotating

Set a Blinn material to the cylinder, and set rotation keyframes.
Only the upper surface seems to rotate only by this setting.



Three kinds of materials will be set as shown in the above figure.
(1)The lower side, Blinn material with reflection.
(2)The upper side, Blinn material with reflection and bump mapping hair line.
(3)The upper surface, Blinn material with radial highlight and bump mapping


(1)The lower side
Connect Env Ball of Environment Texture to Reflected Color.
Connect File Texture of reflected image to Env Ball.


(2)The upper side
The same setting as (1), plus Bump Mapping.


(3)The upper surface
The same setting as (1), plus Bump Mapping and highlight.

Bump mapping Specular Color


The mapping is connected with As Projection to NURBS surface.
Rotate place3dTexture of this mapping.


The cylinder object group is rotating,
the side upper Bump Mapping and upper hightlight are moving.


Turn on Motion Blur at the Render Setting Window.
Set Motion Blur Type 2D,
ajust Blur Length.