AmmonsHorn

circusmonkey
Phong, Blinn, Lambert are specular shading models. So for instance if you drag a basic surface from the material lib into a shop .Then select the specular tab of the material under specular type you will see a drop down list

Rob

Thanks so much!

I have a quick question as well since I'm just starting to mess around with Houdini's rendering options; are there standard materials like Phong, Blinn, Lambert available? I can't seem to find them in the material palette, although I know I've seen screenshots of Houdini with these materials available. I'm using Apprentice if that makes a difference.

SYmek
So if not so much big difference means thousand of dollar… you have the picture.

Thanks for the input. There are a lot of rebates for 7000/8000 series video cards right now, so I could reasonably get a card for under $70; I might just take the risk and try one of those out to see if it solves my problem. Other than that I'm not too savvy with drivers/software issues, so if it's gonna be slow, then it's gonna be slow. Thanks again though.