#Modify or original?
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Ted,
I sent the bronze.tga material. Sorry about the delay, I thought that by
putting that material in the library and sending the .mli file, you would have
what you needed. I thought you already had all of those .tga files. This one
came with Texture Universe. What I'm trying to do is take this material
(because it most closely represents one of the surfaces of an object I'm trying
to render) and blend in a pea-green/powdery-brown blotchy look. There is no
reflection quality present either. Would I be better off using another program
to create abnormal looking materials, or should I be able, theoretically, to do
it in 3DS?
Thanks,
TIM
Tim
Sorry about the mix-up. I do have TU, but didn't recognize the material as
being from there.
My rule of thumb is to create the materials yourself, that way it has your
look and you have complete control. I use AAPRO, Altimira Composer, Painter3
and with a little practice it's almost as fast as scanning a CD for the right
file<g>. Using your own images also has the advantage of being legal in all
situations. Photography used with Kodak PhotoCD is also very useful. With
scanning you still run the potential of copyright infringement.
That said, the options within 3DS are very powerful for modifying images and
may do just what you want.
Have you tried playing with the RGB tinting (pick the S button next to the map
name)? Modify one color channel at a time and view the results
What will this material be applied to? You probably want to drop the bump map
to around 20% and increase to get the look you want.
TedB
-Ted Boardman
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