CompuServe Messages

Chris, You can consider a material to be an object consisting of textures. Kind of. Materials are not seperate from textures as you seem to be thinking. They are really one in the same. You create a material in the editor by combining color, transparency, bitmap pictures and other properties. The pictures can be anything from photos to line art to screengrabs. You then apply the materials you create to the objects in your scence. And, yes you _will_lose resolution as you zoom into a material you're using a bitmap in it. You can prove this to yourself by just zooming into a picture in photoshop or something else. The same is true of 3DS. Taking a picture of a building and mapping it onto a box is probably not the best way to make a building. It might work good for far off objects though or as background elements. If you are going to do a walk through or something you will most likely want to build the model by hand. It will lookd much nicer. Reading the tutorials and doing all of them is the best way to learn the program. Although Video Post is not covered nearly good enough to be very useful. <Sorry Jack> Good luck. Dave Mennenoh