Coming to the edges highlight layer then we can change its base RGB values to 0.32, 0.22 and 0.13 respectively. Now, this particular color change does mean that the worn parts are a little too bright and so we'll need a darker color in order to match the look I'm aiming for in my reference. This is a real good way of augmenting smart materials have a photograph up of the texture that you want to mimic and that will give you a direction and possible changes that can be made in order to augment the smart materials in a beneficial way. Now I've just made that change so that things are a little more in line with the real world counterpart of our camera of which I have reference. In which we will, first of all want to really unify the colors of our assets textures by coming to the base color layer, clicking on it and then from inside its options clicking on the base color swatch, which we can set to values of red 0.5, green 0.47 and blue 0.3. We're going to make a start with our damaged leatherette material. With that in mind then let's just see how much of a change we can actually affect without using anything else other than the smart materials already applied. So once you have worked through this I really would recommend grabbing an asset of your own and chucking some smart materials on it and then really thinking through how you might improve them to get a more unique or realistic look. Think about what it is you want as an end goal and how you might improve these smart materials to make them look that little bit better, that little bit more realistic, that little bit more in line with the reference that you might have gathered beforehand and doing this will make this particular video useful because obviously the changes I'm going to make are for my very specific asset that I have in my viewport and although you can follow the steps and end up with the same result what I want you to do is take the principles from this video and then start to train your eye and your mind to apply them to your own assets. So and take the time to study your asset.

Now again, because we are working on a very specific asset here, what you really need to do in order to gain the benefits of this video is to just see how quickly and easily we can adjust these materials to get the desired result that we want. In this video, we will get to see the real power of smart materials as we quickly adjust and augment what we already have in order to make it a little more personalized and so unique to our project.

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