From the course: Surfacing an F1 Wheel In Alias

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Applying text - Alias Tutorial

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Applying text

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- In this video I'm going to show you how to apply text to the F1 wheel. So I use a very simple approach. The approach that I use is I create a planar surface and I apply a shader to that planar surface and I place that planar surface just above then entity that it's relevant to, for example, the main body. In this case, let's go to WindowDisplay, Hardware Shade and let's do a Shade On. Now this is the final result we're going to be aiming for but in your case you're going to see a whole slew of question marks there. And the reason for this is that when I created the exercise file, my sourceimages folder was residing on my desktop and what you've done now is you've downloaded the sourceimages folder placed it on your desktop, so the link between the image and this surface now has essentially been broken. I can show you that by picking one of these entities let's pick this H for example, and let's take a look at where Alias thinks this image should reside. So the first thing I'm go to…

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