Slide 2 - Working With Materials

Creating Materials & Textures

This series of instructions teaches you how to load textures from the hard disk.

1. Return to the copy of Scenome with the active file MATERIAL_PALETTE.BOX.
2. Examine the hierarchy.
3. Delete both the material nodes beneath Scene.
4. Right click over Scene and select Create » Group from the listed options.
5. Set the name of the new group to Textures.
6. Again right click over Scene and select Create » Group from the listed options.
7. Set the name of the new group to Materials.
8. The hierarchy looks like this:
9. Left click the group node named Textures.
10. Select Hierarchy » Load Texture/Material from the main menu.
11. This displays the Select An Image File dialog.
12. Navigate to \EXERCISES\TEXTURES.
13. Select all the PNG images in the directory.
14. Click Open.
15. Left click the small + to the left of the group node named Textures.
16. The hierarchy looks like this: