Applying a Car Paint Material

This task shows you how to apply the Car Paint material giving metallic textures with reflective-particle effects to your model. This advanced material is hard-coded and delivered with your Version 5 product.
The Car Paint material is available on Windows only.
Moreover, bear in mind that this shader is not taken into account when computing rendered images.

Open the Chess.CATProduct document.

  1. Select the Tools > Options > General > Display > Performance tab then select the Enable OpenGL Shader check box in the Miscellaneous area (this option appears only once the necessary elements are downloaded):

  2. Select the Italian Marble material in the specification tree.

  3. Select Edit > Properties or right-click and select Properties to open the Properties dialog box.

    The material properties can also be accessed by right-clicking the object onto which the material has been applied then selecting Material > Edit Material...
    This avoids selecting the material in the specification tree and is especially useful when working in Full Screen mode, for instance.

    You can also manipulate the object (i.e. zooming in/out, etc.) directly in the geometry area while displaying the Properties dialog box either by double-clicking the material in the specification tree or by right-clicking the material then selecting xxx object > Definition.
    The Car Paint advanced material supports standard light sources (defined via View > Lighting) as well as spot and directional light sources defined in the Real Time Rendering workbench.
    When using the above-mentioned light sources, you can modify the specular, ambient and diffuse coefficients as needed.
  4. Select the Rendering tab, then select Texture tab. Select Car Paint from the Type list:

    • The parameters under the Texture tab allows you to define the respective parameters.
    • The ... button displays the Color dialog box, which allows you to select a color.
    The shader is applied to your model. A section of the model is as shown below: 
  5. Click OK or Apply and then OK to validate your parameters and close the Properties dialog box.