# Help About Adding Textures

**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/help-about-adding-textures/45512
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** mental-ray
**Created:** [October 29, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/help-about-adding-textures/45512 "2007-10-29T15:16:14Z")
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### Author: ![rsenoron](https://forum.highend3d.com/user_avatar/forum.highend3d.com/rsenoron/32/54781_2.png) [@rsenoron](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/rsenoron)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/help-about-adding-textures/45512/1 "2007-10-29T15:16:14Z")

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I'm modeling a car and I want to add some decals into the car paint phenomena. What's the best approach to add those textures? When I try to convert the car paint shader into a file texture in the hypershade it won't give me the file.