hello all, how do i chang the materials on a vue tree? the picture i included is an example of what happens when i tried to edit the material. all i wanted to change was that bark of the tree and ass you can see the leaves changed to (the tree in front left near the lights). that is the one thing i think could make this picture look good (that and some talent). any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks in advance! eb

right next to the atmosphere editor the next button is meterial summery. From there you can choose just the bark or just the leaves, and edit that one. Hope it helps.

definitely helps thank you!

that is awsome. all this time i had no idea that little button existed. guess i should have read the manual a little more extensively. thanks again for the great tip! see that you learn something new everyday:)

:-) I use the Backroom > Archtips as my reference guide. As I'm no good at reading manuals, I take direction from ppl's conversations. :-)

yeah the manuals are not a very interesting read. that is two cool tips you gave me tonight. i will have to check out the backroom myself. thanks again.

That looks like an abstract sculpture! Don't feel bad about not finding the material summary button; I didn't realize it was there for a year, lol! Now I'm absolutely lost without it.

Vue manual is great but I think it is of no help for the change of tree/plants materials. Please see the tuts in the backroom and read the recent threads ;=) Yves

thank you all for the help, it will be put to good use! eb

more precisely, there is a thread just below on this topic ;=)

Just to mention, you can also use the F6 key to bring up the material editor. Another little tip (probably mentioned somewhere in the backroom, but just in case...). If you have already created several trees of the same type, changing the material for the trunk via the material editor will affect all of them. However, if you then add another tree of the same kind, it will have the original default materials. This can be useful, but if it is not what you want, you simply need to change the material again in the editor.

thanks flycatcher! yet another great tip (lord knows i need as many as i can get), but then again i can always count on good advice from this forum. thanks again!