Maps any image input onto an object (such
as a shading network, or a file texture). You can mask the input
image to control how it covers a surface, to overlay different textures
and control what parts of the texture are visible, or to label map
a surface.
Find this utility in
the Create Bar (see
Hide, resize or customize the Create bar).
To use this utility,
see
Use the Stencil utility.
- Image
-
The
texture that is used as a stencil.
- Edge Blend
-
Controls the sharpness of the texture
edges. The default Stencil’s color is the color
of the edge blend. Increase this value to blend edges softly.
- Mask
-
Represents
the Stencil’s transparency. Use
to control the overall transparency of the entire texture. To control
the transparency of selected regions of the texture, map another
texture to Mask.
For example, this is
what happens when you map a File texture
to the Mask attribute.
HSV Color Key
- Key Masking
-
Enables
or disables Chroma Key masking. When on,
Maya selects the areas in the texture similar to or equal to the Color
Key color and masks them out. When off, all other key
attributes have no effect.
- Positive Key
-
Inverts the chroma key mask (only the
colors specified in the Color Key and HSV
Range are displayed). The default setting is off (the
colors specified in the Color Key and HSV
Range are masked).
- Color Key
-
The color to be masked in the texture.
The default setting is black. To mask a range of colors, you must
also set the Hue/Sat/Val Range parameters.
- Hue Range
-
The range of hues (H) centered on the Color
Key color which are also masked. The valid range is 0
to 1. The default value is 0.5.
- Saturation Range
-
The
range of saturations (S) centered on the Color Key color
which are also masked. The valid range is 0 to 1. The default value
is 0.5.
- Value Range
-
The range of values (V) centered on
the Color Key color which are also
masked. The valid range is 0 to 1. The default value is 0.5. If
you want to mask out the exact key color, set V to 0.
- Threshold
-
Controls
the point at which the color state changes.
