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– Reply to message #3091 (already scrolled) >> Also, is there a print out of samples of ALL the textures and materials, or at least the ones 'not pictured' in the catalog? << Steve: I used Graphic Workshop to make thumbnails of the textures that I have, also use Vuejpeg, which is quite a nice viewer too. There are others… but these are the ones that I use. May be better ones, I just found these. George and Nick wrote me a very good note about transparent material.. that might be a help… To make a gold colored material, I found a file that was about the right "look" with not much texture to it, in my Corel PhotoCD Sampler. I cropped it and saved it as a .tif file. To make a gold material, I started with a nice yellow, added my texture and then used "shiny" with white as my second color, to get it the way I wanted it… if this is not clear, I'll be more specific. Probably others will have some suggestions too. I have done this with a number of different files, finding things that are interesting, and then saving them, perhaps rotating or whatever I need to do, then saving as a tif file. It's very interesting to me, to see what happens when you add something to the material, like coins for example. Jinny