4th January 2006, 01:15 PM | #1 |
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Materials setting dialog box
With the new version of AC3D, the dialog box you get for materials editing (right clicking on a colored box at the bottom left of the interface) has changed a LOT.
Gone are the fields for editing the materials properties, and all you seem to be changing are the display color hues. I want to create "white" colored objects with certain emmisive/luminence/specular, transparency and shininess, but the value boxes or swatches I have to work with all seem to suggest COLOR values, like RGB or Saturation. Am I missing something here? ================= Also, is there a way to IMPORT materials values from one file to another. The way I'm solving this problem right now is kind of counterintuitive: I'm opening a file with the materials the way I want, and importing parts of objects that don't have the correct Material 1 (the white material), and changing the Materials of the imported object and re-exporting them. It'd be better (not to mention more productive) to be able to open a fresh new file with that #1 White material, and/or any other materials the way I want them. Hope this makes some sense.... I'm feeling more confused just typing this. ops:
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4th January 2006, 01:33 PM | #2 |
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Hi Stiglr
I think the easiest way in this case is to change the *.ac file with an editor. Just add under the line AC3Db for example: MATERIAL "ac3dmat12" rgb 1.00 1.00 1.00 amb 1.00 1.00 1.00 emis 0.20 0.20 0.20 spec 0.50 0.50 0.50 shi 50 trans 0 Well, I hope this helps at least a little bit :wink: Bye olaf |
4th January 2006, 03:49 PM | #3 |
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Great idea. Thanks!!!
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