Texture

[rotamina]

hey guys! i have a very sill question about texture removing. once i try puttin on texture to my object, i can't even remove it . i am completely new to texture. is there any options how to remove the applied textures from the texture editor box?
is there any sort of free tutorials about how i can understand the texture eiditing box and its features? help me out please.
i get lost somewhere when tryin to figure out those texture tools. ( em not talkin about the UV mapping dude. just to understand how materials tools works. ) yeah thats all.

[gentlesea]

Hi there,

well this one is really easy. You just have to keep in mind, that materials are not textures. I mean the simplest way to attach a texture to an object is to use an image file and connect that one to a material. So you would open the Hypershade and do a

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Create - File (section: 2D Textures)

which results in a texture as you probably figured out already. But then you have to create a material that you will connect with your texture.

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Create - Lambert (section: Surface)

Now you just drop the texture onto the material (Ctrl - MMB) and you assigned the texture to the material.
Now select the geometry and MMB-drop the material onto the selection.

If you want to "delete" the textured material, just assign the standard lambert1 to your geometry. You shouldn't connect any textures to that though. That was easy, was it? A hint: A nice book about texturing does no harm.

[rotamina]

thanks dude i'll try on with that.
have got another questions too. how can i apply layers of textured to a single surface withoutout one disturbing the other? if the surface is too wide and big ( a map ) do i have to paint the whole detail surface at once or ...? how cai i paint the whole surface parts by parts and put it onto the object?

[gentlesea]

All the operations with different layers on images I would do in an image manipulation program. You do not need to have to texture a whole surface at once, you can texture single faces also. If you want to texture a surface and leave some borders you can either move the UV-coordinates in the UV Texture Editor or you Split the surface using the Split Polygons Tool and texture only the face you want. But keep in mind that a texture is bound to a material and you cannot assign various materials to one surface.