9th September 2008, 11:27 AM | #1 |
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Multi Materials
Being able to assign different materials to different parts of your models.
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12th September 2008, 06:01 PM | #2 |
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Re: Multi Materials
Materials can be assigned per-surface. Highlight the surfaces you want, and then while you are still in surface mode click the material palette to assign a material.
Important side note! While AC3D supports this, some export formats may not. |
13th September 2008, 10:10 PM | #3 |
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Re: Multi Materials
You referring to just the colors, I apologize I should have made myself more clear, being able to apply more then one texture on a object.
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15th September 2008, 09:09 PM | #4 |
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Re: Multi Materials
Ah. Yes, you're right, only one texture per mesh. This is common for most game engines and such, too. A work-around is to split your object into multiple meshes, and then group them so you can still manipulate it as one object.
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21st September 2008, 04:01 PM | #5 |
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Re: Multi Materials
Or just get really good at TCE.
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