Adding materials gave us a colour on our object, but sometimes we want to have a texture as well to make it look a bit more realistic.
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Select your object Open the textures |
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You won't see many buttons yet - we need to create a texture. Press and hold down the menu button on the toolbar |
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Choose ADD NEW (More buttons should appear!) |
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Click on the menu arrow under Texture Type. Choose Stucci |
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Then adjust the settings until you have a texture that you like. |
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Render your image (F12) - the texture won't show yet. |
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Return to the materials buttons, On the right-hand side, select the “Map To” tab |
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Select Nor (it should be dark blue with white writing) |
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Then render again (F12). You should have a nice shiny textured surface on your object. Explore the other textures (F6), especially Noise, Image and Blend. |
buttons (or
press F6)
(F5)
making sure that your object is still highlighted.
