Class 4/09

Read Ch. 4, pp. 401-504

For activity credit, do this tutorial and post a render to your blog by next class:

1. Create a 3D object.
2. Download and use a bitmap of a sky to create an Environment Map
3. Put a plane under your object and give it a sand texture.
4. Create a new material and name it Glass. This is for your 3D object.
5. Ambient and Diffuse colors should be black.
6. Specular: 275
7. Glossiness: 45
8. Opacity: 50, then give it a Map of type Falloff, with Falloff Type "Fresnel"
9. Refraction: 80, Map of type Raytrace
10. Under the Parent material, open the Supersampling section and Enable it, giving it the type Max 2.5 Star