<aside> 💡 Welcome to YMA Painterly! This is a general overview of how to use YMA Painterly to your advantage along with some details for all materials to work with your models.

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YMA Color Node System

Because each material can have many different nodes and connections to create these styles, to simplify things we have added notes along with what we call the YMA Color Node System. All nodes are color coded and organized/grouped together for ease of use/understanding.

• GREEN = Transform Nodes Edit the Master Scale Node to change all scale settings in a material at once. Or choose the individual scale/rotation/offset nodes to change each component (texture scale, noise scale, dirt scale, etc). (Sometimes very large or very small numbers are needed, due to your 3D model and scene.)
• PURPLE = Color Nodes Edit these to control color in the material.
• BLUE = Bump Nodes Edit to alter painterly normals effects. . 0 will be standard look, 0.1 and higher will begin to alter how light hits the surface, looking more like painterly normals!
• WHITE = Opacity Nodes Edit to control Opacity / Transparency of shader. Some glass, plastic and watercolor materials rely on transparency. You can change them to be more see through or solid with this node.
• GREY = Building Block Nodes These are all various kinds of nodes that can be edited but not required to edit.

C4D

Houdini

Node Preview Window: Open vs Closed (*C4D)

To simplify which nodes are ideal to edit, we have made specific Node Preview Windows Open to help speed up where to find commonly changed settings (size, color, transparency, etc.).

Preview Window = OPEN Edit those settings

Preview Window = CLOSED Can ignore

Lighting

Higher intensity on lights are recommended. Try to use color in your lights as well, almost as if painting with lights. Don’t be afraid to increase saturation in your HDRI as well!!

In your Camera settings or in Compositing play with higher saturation - higher saturation will feel more like paint! UVs