Here in this tutorial, we are going to texture the table in Maya. At this time we have already model of table. Though, the table has rough look, so we shall texture and provide appropriate material to the table to make its look perfect. Go to Hyper shade prospective icon and it will bring you toward material assigning application. The material is provided with empty blinn. Later on,
this blinn is used for texturing and mapping of the model. There are varieties of options there to modify the object completely.
1. Click on the color icon and choose color from color selector. Browse the file here which is required to texture; don’t forget to rename this file.
2. Choose the texture file from drive, now select the object like table and then select the assigned material and by right clicking on it we can assign this material to selected object.
Take a test render at this time and you’ll see it pretty much better. For texturing, choose bump map and browse file for mapping. We can use Adobe Photoshop for this purpose.
Save this mapping file and then assign it to the selected texture in Maya. Take a test render again and this time the result will be quite different from previous one. Try some other texture and mapping file and apply them for your project file and get the experience.
The video tutorial is here to provide you visual learning about texturing in Maya.