Set up a render appearances

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Set up render appearances.

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After completing this video, you'll be able to apply appearances,

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adjust appearance textures and add a decal

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in fusion 3 60.

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Let's carry on with the data set from our previous video render scene setup.

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We've already taken care of setting up our scene.

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We've modified our camera settings, the light position

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and we've got the orientation of the view just right.

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Keep in mind that we don't have any views saved.

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So it's a good idea for us to right click and create a new named view

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and I'm gonna call this one Iso

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front.

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Now,

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the main reason for that is if we happen to rotate

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this around to get a good look at some appearances,

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we can always go back to home positions and now we can go back to that Iso

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front.

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So when you're setting up renders and you want to repeat the exact same position,

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it's a good idea to save those named views.

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The next step for me is to go to appearances

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and I wanna pick an appearance for these glasses.

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We're gonna start by taking a look at the wood section all the way at the bottom

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and note that there are two different types of wood.

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We have wood and then one called wood solid.

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The wood solid allows us to have a finished wood material

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that reacts to model changes.

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So for example, if you started with a wood block and you made an extrude cut,

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the grain would actually carry down into those faces for the extrude cut.

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Because of this, I prefer using wood solid materials.

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Whenever I'm doing my designs for rendering,

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I'm gonna pick the 3d Ko a curly semi

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gloss because this is a really cool appearance.

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And I think it will help us get a realistic render.

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If yours isn't downloaded, simply select the download icon next to it to the right

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and then we can drag and drop this onto the frame component in the browser

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note that you can drag and drop it on the screen directly,

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but this will be applied to the body and not the component.

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So depending on the organization of your design,

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you need to think about how it's getting applied

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for me. I prefer to go to the components in the browser whenever possible.

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Now that we've got the wood applied, we need to talk about the lenses.

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There are two main ways that we can deal with these lenses.

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One is to apply a plastic material and the other is to apply a glass.

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Let's get started by first taking a look at plastic

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and I'm gonna scroll all the way down and tell them in the transparent section.

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And we're gonna be using poly

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carb.

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We're gonna drag and drop this over the right lens

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and then drag and drop this over the left lens.

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Now on the screen, this looks perfectly clear.

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We can see straight through it, but we need to make some edits or adjustments.

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I'm gonna right click and select edit.

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And the first thing that I wanna do is change the color.

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So I'm gonna bring the color down until it's fairly dark. And then I'm gonna say done

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and do an in canvas render.

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Even though we made the color darker,

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you'll notice that we can still see essentially straight through.

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The reason for this is because the color is not the only piece of this puzzle.

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If we right click and edit the poly carb.

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There are two main numbers that we need to think about.

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We have an absorption distance and a refractive index.

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The refractive index is going to determine how objects that

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are seen through this lens are going to be distorted.

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If you think about looking down into a pool of water

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or looking through a glass that has water in it.

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That is a refractive index of around one.

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As we increase that number, there's going to be less distortion to those objects.

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There is a general range to work within

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and there are some drop downs where you can select things like

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water which will take it down to a lower number. We can go to quartz

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and we can go to glass

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and you can kind of see and play around with these using

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that in canvas render to see how it affects your design.

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But the main thing that we want to focus on is this absorption distance

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as value right now is 1.96 inches. It's pretty big.

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We're gonna drop this down to 0.5

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say done and then take a look at it in canvas render.

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We can already see that it's a little bit darker,

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but let's make another change by right click edit

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and let's change this number from 0.5 to 0.1 something pretty small.

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And then let's take a look at it in canvas render

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with that number set so low to 0.1 essentially what's

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happening is before any light can pass through that lens,

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it's instantly bounced back.

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This gives us an extremely dark appearance and it

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doesn't really look like it's plastic or glass.

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So we're gonna make an edit to that.

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We're going to right click and we're gonna edit this value to be somewhere around 0.3

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and we'll try one more in canvas render.

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So 0.3 does give us that dark tint and we can still see

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through the glasses and this is what we want for our render.

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So we're gonna stop the in canvas render and select clothes.

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The next thing that we want to talk about is decals,

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oftentimes you need to apply decals or stickers to your

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design to give them that extra level of realism.

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We're only gonna be adding one. So I'm gonna go to a right side view

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and I'm gonna focus on adding an auto

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desk logo directly to this portion.

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We're gonna do that by going to our decal settings

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and in the downloads data set there is an auto

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desk decal

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we're gonna select open and we're gonna select the face. We want to place it on,

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we're going to turn off chain faces because we only want it to stay on this face.

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And we're going to increase the scale and the position until it looks about right.

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We're gonna say, OK,

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and then we can rotate back to another view.

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I think this view looks pretty good.

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So I'm going to go to my name view section

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and I'm going to create a new named view

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called Iso

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front two.

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And once again, I can go back and forth between these two views for my renders.

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This is a nice view because it also shows

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the light effect that's happening in our HDR environment.

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With this said there is one last step of the process that I do want to mention.

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And that's something called the texture map controls.

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Texture map controls allow us to control the grain and

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direction of any of the appearances that we're using.

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So if you're applying a wood grain like we are here.

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Or if you're applying something like a carbon fiber,

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then you might want to use this option to play

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around with how that texture is laying on your design.

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Notice that projection type is 3d texture

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and the axis is going to be by default.

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And then we can also do best fit for object.

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When we use these options, we can pick a specific object

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and then we can take a look at how that appearance or material is being applied

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by manipulating and picking where and how it's going to be projected

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for our design.

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You can see that if I switch the axis,

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it looks like it's stretching the wood out a little bit,

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we can pick Z to have the grain oriented up and down,

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we can pick Y to have it oriented forward back or X to go left and right.

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I think for this design, the X axis appears to be the best.

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So I'm gonna say OK, and leave it at that.

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This gives us a little bit of the lighter color on the frames

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and we can kind of see that lighter color over here as well.

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I'm gonna zoom out and rotate around and just take a look at the other side

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and I think that looks pretty good.

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So I'm gonna go back to my

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ISO front too

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at this point.

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Let's make sure that we do save this design before we move on to creating our renders.