Creating surface effects using shaders

You can create various surface effects by applying shaders, textures, and setting material properties to objects and models.

The following table is about shaders that work with materials and/or textures.

Workflow	Material property	Texture	Shader	Additional asset
Making an object transparent and Creating transparent objects	Transparency property		Flat, Lighted, and Dynamic Lighting
Making objects reflective	Reflectivity property	Spherical Map, Sphere Map, Layered Spherical Map, Layered Sphere Map	Reflection
Creating a Bump Map	Bump Map and Normal Map	Texture or Layered Texture	Bump Map or custom shader	Light
Normal Map shader > To add relief with a normal map	Bump Map or Normal Map	Texture or Layered texture	Dyanmic Lighting
Creating a 3D matte		need a Texture or Layered Texture, with video or image, as Camera Background	Matte shader
Applying shadows to objects		Generates a Light Map. Layered Light Map, also.	Live Shadow	Light
		Generates a Shadow Map. Also Layered Shadow Map.	Shadow Map	Light
			Dynamic Lighting shader	Light

The following table is about shader workflows that stand alone:

Workflow	Material property	Texture	Shader	Additional asset
Applying a shader to a model			all
Hiding the Defualt shader			Default shader
Activating and disabling shaders			all
Applying the Flat shader			Flat shader
Applying the Multilevel Cartoon shader			Multilevel Cartoon shader
Applying the Edge Cartoon shader			Edge Cartoon shader
Creating environmental effects with shaders			Particle shader
Increasing the size, quantity, and color of particles			Particle shader
Drawing an object’s wireframe			Wire Frame shader
Displaying a model’s polygons			Faceted
Controlling a CgFX shader			CgFX shader
Defining settings for a shader (shader manager)			Shader manager, all shaders