I want to add some materials/textures. Things like wood board texture, stonewall, tree bark, etc, to the texture/material libraries, but I'm at a loss on how to do it. I'd also like to add some VOB files, and objects to the libraries, but I can't figure it out. I can't seem to find the info in the manual. Can anyone steer me in the right direction? Even a page number in the manual would help. Any help would be appreicated. :O(

When your material is on an object on your screen and shows up in the small material window, right-click it and choose "save material". To save an object as *vob, right-click the object's name and choose "save object". Guitta

Hi Guitta I mean the material not on an object. I downloaded some wood, tree bark, etc, from a Vue website. Files have _v.mat extention.

If you absolutely want to save it as *.mat files. create a sphere or whatever, apply the material (wood, tree bark...) and then save it as vob (right-click the material window, select save material). Remember you must keep the bitmap somewhere, otherwise Vue cannot open the mat file. I think the best is you just keep the bitmaps in your bitmap folder or in underfolders calle "Wood", "Barks", Grasses et.... But in this case you will NOT see it in the material preview window. Only mat files shows up there.

Hi Philywebrider, here's what I did to get my different glass materials in the appropriate preview group (i.e., glasses): 1) Open the Vue application folder / Materials. 2) Open the preview group folder you want your downloaded materials to appear in. For our example, open "Glasses". 3) Rename the file "material.prv" to something different like "material.bak", or delete the file. 4) All the materials that ship with Vue start with a number and an underscore to define the order in what they'll appear in the materials browser. Copy your dowloaded material into the folder, and rename the material accordingly. For our example, copy your glass material into the glasses folder, and rename it to 30_Yet another glass.mat. (There's 29 glass materials in said folder, hence the 30_ .) 5) Start Vue, and browse to the materials group you added the downloaded .mat to. In our case, that's "Glasses". Vue will automatically generate a new material.prv including your freshly added materials. To change the preview texts (i.e. Title and Description), open the material in Vue's material editor and hit the Save button. Enter a suitable title and Description, and save it at it's desired location (i.e. materials group folder) with the appropriate name (i.e. [number]_[filename].mat). To add a new folder in the materials browser, just create the folder e.g. in the Materials directory, open Vue, go to the materials browser, and hit "New". Browse to your new folder (say, "downloads"), select a material in said folder, and hit OK. Enter the name you want the folder to appear with in the materials browser (e.g. "Downloaded Materials"), and you're done. In this case, you won't need to number the materials unless you want to predefine the order in what the materials will be listed. Hope this helps, -Sascha.rb

gebe, nggalai Many thanks I really appreocate it, you've been a lot of help.