Loading Textures to a surface.

BravoGoku · 10th June 2004, 12:21 AM

I just got the Trial Version of AC3D, its great. for such a small download it is just as powerful as much of the big ones. Anyway. I just modeled an object and i had the texture made and loaded it. but the white default texture still shines through. i put the shininess up and it fixed it but it dont look good shiny. if someone could tell me how to take the default texture off the object it would be great. Thanks.

Andy · 11th June 2004, 03:21 PM

To get a really shiny object increase the shininess and maximise the specular. You may need to increase details to get a better effect inside AC3D e.g. make a sphere with more segments.

To get reflections and nicer shiny lighting effects, you will need to render your model with a raytracer like Povray (www.povray.org) - this can be set up to render from tools->render.

The material of a surface 'shows through' a texture so you'll probably want to use a white material underneath to show your texture off the best.

Andy

10th June 2004, 12:21 AM	#1
BravoGoku Junior Member Junior member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 1	Loading Textures to a surface. I just got the Trial Version of AC3D, its great. for such a small download it is just as powerful as much of the big ones. Anyway. I just modeled an object and i had the texture made and loaded it. but the white default texture still shines through. i put the shininess up and it fixed it but it dont look good shiny. if someone could tell me how to take the default texture off the object it would be great. Thanks.

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11th June 2004, 03:21 PM	#2
Andy Administrator Professional user Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 3,727	To get a really shiny object increase the shininess and maximise the specular. You may need to increase details to get a better effect inside AC3D e.g. make a sphere with more segments. To get reflections and nicer shiny lighting effects, you will need to render your model with a raytracer like Povray (www.povray.org) - this can be set up to render from tools->render. The material of a surface 'shows through' a texture so you'll probably want to use a white material underneath to show your texture off the best. Andy