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Forest Pack => Forest Pro (*) => Topic started by: UI3072 on April 17, 2007, 09:48:39 PM

Title: Assign a tree material
Post by: UI3072 on April 17, 2007, 09:48:39 PM
Assign a tree material.

Do I have to assign materials from the Material Editor for every tree, or is it a easier way direct from Forest?
Maybe this is an stupid question?

K
Title: Re: Assign a tree material
Post by: iToo on April 17, 2007, 11:34:30 PM
Hi,

Yes, you must assign the material from the Material Editor, as any other geometric object.

In 3D Studio, a object must not assign itself the material, because it may be instanced: a same object cloned with different properties (modifiers, material and so).

But the material is applied to all trees of the Forest object. If you want to use different materials for every tree, you must use multi-materials and modify the material ID using the parameters of of the 'Material' rollout:

http://www.itoosoft.com/english/menu.php?id=forest_refmaterial (http://www.itoosoft.com/english/menu.php?id=forest_refmaterial)

Title: Re: Assign a tree material
Post by: UI3072 on April 18, 2007, 12:05:21 AM
Thank you! I understand.
This is a good forum.
K