This tutorial is introducing you with some advanced feature of Maya 2012. We are trying to include and present all the necessary features of Maya here on our site. This specific tutorial is demonstrating substance feature of Maya. This feature is now available in Maya 2012 and we are presenting such scene in which this feature is used properly. The substance manages and restores texture material for the model.
The Substance nodes are located in hyper shade with 2D texture. Maya enables you to get change in new different style after choosing these nodes properly. One selected nodes contains number of parameters which can be increased or decreased on scene demand.
You can manage parameter setting according to your own choice, the substance nodes allows you to get preview of the hyper shade. When the substance nodes are selected, its parameters are automatically highlighted.
The texture can be reset or chose as default for rendering with bitmap format. Using substance nodes, you can either work with existing bitmap. You can see the changing in the texture of the given image after modifying its parameter ratio. This dynamic properties demonstrates the editable and animatable parameters.
Because of substances, there is now available high quality of texture in Maya. The video tutorial is demonstrating same concept of substances.