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Add texture in 3ds Max

Add texture in 3ds Max

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Add texture in 3ds Max

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- In addition to color, we can also add textures to our materials, and this will add a lot more life to our scenes. So, here we have our scene, and let's go into the Compact Material Editor. So I'm going to go ahead and select this first slot, and we're going to change that to a physical material. So if I wanted to, I could create a color here, and if I wanted to, I could select all of these objects here, and click this to assign that material to the selection. But, as you can see, it's just one solid color. We really want texture. Well, instead of this one color, we can actually import a texture. So I'm going to go ahead and click on this button here, and that allows me to choose a material or a map. Now, we have a number of different types of maps, but the one I really just want to do, is a bitmap, which is essentially a bitmap image. Let's go ahead and click OK, and then it's going to ask me which image to choose.…

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