{"id":1336,"date":"2009-10-12T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2010-03-23T05:28:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T05:28:51","slug":"3dsmax-monday-movie-52-directx-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/1336\/video-tutorials\/3dsmax-monday-movie-52-directx-materials","title":{"rendered":"DirectX Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone,<\/p>\n<p>This week is my 52nd Monday Movie! \u00a0We&#8217;ve done an entire year of bite-sized 3dsMax video tutorials. \u00a0How exciting!<\/p>\n<p>In the video below, I&#8217;ll show you how to set up a DirectX material in 3dsMax. \u00a0This will allow you to get \u00a0much more powerful viewport rendering. \u00a0Your 3d objects will be able to respond (to some extent) to lighting through the diffuse map, specular map, and normal map!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important:<\/strong> In order to follow along, you&#8217;ll need to download <a title=\"3dsMax DirectX Materials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bencloward.com\/shaders_NormalMapSpecular3lights.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Cloward&#8217;s 3-point lighting .FX<\/a> file! \u00a0You want the one without transparency for this example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone, This week is my 52nd Monday Movie! \u00a0We&#8217;ve done an entire year of bite-sized 3dsMax video tutorials. \u00a0How exciting! In the video below, I&#8217;ll show you how to set up a DirectX material in 3dsMax. \u00a0This will allow you to get \u00a0much more powerful viewport rendering. \u00a0Your 3d objects will be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,104,6],"tags":[185,62,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}