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Getting Started with Maya

> Rendering

>  Lesson 2:  Shading surfaces

Open the scene for the lesson

In this lesson, you work with a scene we created for your use.

1. Make sure you’ve done the steps in Preparing for the lessons.
2. Open the scene named ShadeOrange.mb.

You can open the scene named ShadeOrange.mb from the Maya DVD or from the drive where you copied the Getting Started with Maya data files.

This scene contains a sphere modeled to resemble an orange.

The scene’s perspective view also has two settings turned on—Shading > Smooth Shade All and Shading > Hardware Texturing (Hotkey: 6)—which let you see the shading changes you are about to make.