Newbie question: Sorry to bother you. I am applying a default brick material from category rocks. The problem is that it shows very small. I edit the material and change the picture scale to say X:1.5 and Y:1.5 but i cannot see that it has changed in the model.Am i doing something wrong or missing something? Thanks

Do it this way: In the small material window at top right of your Vue interface, scale the brick to something highter. Guitta

i have put a greater value i.e 2 but that didnt work either. any other way please?

What is the kind of the object where you apply the mat? Here on a cube. Left scale 1.00 and right scale 3.00

The model has been imported into vue as a 3ds model. Maybe it plays a role the different format? Maybe 3ds cannot be textured as a native Vue file. I have also tried the cube example as you mentioned and it does work. The exported file comes from sketchup. Thanks

One thing to try is to ungroup your SU import and then try and texture it. This may help. :O)

Also if your model is not grouped from SU try splitting it in vue into its individual components. Then texture each componet. :O)

For some reason, the main camera view window is not changing while the little window with the rendered preview of the model does change. Also the changes are also seen when i render in on screen in a window. The difference with your example is that when i scale the bricks are not smooth but horrible. i attach a pic.

Looks like progress, try turning your bump down a bit? :O)

So what does it go wrong on the material scale i posted above and it shows too many black dots. How do i improve it? how do i make it look like the picture posted by gebe?

If you want smoother bricks, click the material editor for it, click "bumps" and scale down the Bump gain.

Thanks to all your help. It worked.