Anybody know of some good resources to learn how to make advanced materials?

[@matrix]

Id like a good book or online class where i can learn advanced material creation, the basic materials tutorial vid by corona was awesome but i want to go more in depthy, thanks

[maru]

Well, have you seen this one?

What specific materials do you mean? Usually it's observing a material in real life/reference photos and trying to figure out how to simulate the observed phenomena using tools available in material editor.

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Well, have you seen this one?

What's up with Outputs after the AO map? Isn't the same thing achievable within the AO map itself, with Invert normals and Color spared options.

[romullus]

Not exactly. With AO map you get nice gradient from occluded to unoccluded colours and with Output map you can finetune that same gradient in a way you could never achieve with controls available in AO map.

[agentdark45]

Have you seen any of the Grant Warwick vray tutorials? A lot of of can be easily translated into Corona.