angelusnhc opened this issue on Aug 16, 2005 ยท 25 posts
diolma posted Fri, 19 August 2005 at 5:16 PM
angelusnhc, If the objects come with textures you will (probably) have to apply them in Bryce's materials room. Alas if the objects don't come with textures then there's no easy way, unless you want to fork out some money. If you are any good with a paint program, then you can create your own textures, but you'll have to learn how to use something like UVMapper (by Steve Cox, still a free version available I think) to create a UV Map. Then create your own texture, fitting the lines in the map for the plumage. It's not an easy task. An alternative (I almost spelt that alTERNative, a Tern being a seabird, but didn't..) is to take/acquire photos of birds, preferably on an uncluttered background, then create a transparency map from it and apply both to a square. Sorry, I'm not a good teacher. There are many in this forum who could explain/clarify better what I've just said. I hope they notice this thread and do so.. Cheers, Diolma